{"title":"Etel Adnan","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"shifting-the-silence","title":"Shifting the Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eShifting the Silence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e does just that: breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. Published in the year before her death, Adnan enumerated in this book her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the view of the sea from Adnan’s window in Brittany in a poignant often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43976667857110,"sku":"","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/products\/91XEYO8dxyL.jpg?v=1674850624"},{"product_id":"the-beauty-of-light","title":"The Beauty of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan, interviewed by Laure Adler (trans. by Ethan Mitchell)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn these interviews conducted by journalist Laure Adler, poet and painter Etel Adnan recounts the foundational experiences of her artistic approach shortly before her death in Autumn of 2021. From her youth in Lebanon, through her years in New York and California, and her late-in-life discovery at Documenta in 2013, this intimate conversation revisits and questions the sometimes difficult destiny of women.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/04\/beginning-with-color-an-interview-with-etel-adnan\/\"\u003eRead an excerpt from \u003cem\u003eThe Beauty of Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183243641162,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Adnan-Cover-Pantone-Yellow-FINALSPINEWIDTH-front-final-550x800.jpg?v=1704622678"},{"product_id":"the-arab-apocalypse","title":"The Arab Apocalypse","description":"\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'This book, a masterwork of the dislocations and radiant outcries of the Arab world, reaffirms Etel Adnan, who authored the great poem, Jebu, as among the foremost poets of the French Language. \u003cem\u003eThe Arab Apocalypse\u003c\/em\u003e is an immersion into a rapture of chaos clawing towards destiny, and nullified hope refusing its zero. Is is also the journey of soul through the cartography of a global immediacy rarely registered by maps, replete with signposts like hieroglyphs in a storm of shrapnel and broken glass. And above all it is a book that, though capable of being read in its orderly sequence, has so surrendered to 'being there,' it can rivet the sensibility to the Middle Eastern condition at any point in the text – so rapid are its mutations, so becoming its becomingness – like a wisdom book or a book of Changes.' – Jack Hirschman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47192439193930,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/9780942996609.jpg?v=1699107158"},{"product_id":"of-cities-women-letters-to-fawwaz","title":"Of Cities \u0026 Women (Letters To Fawwaz)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn these letters, written to Fawwaz Traboulsi, sent from Barcelona, Aix-en-Provence, Skopelos, Murcia, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, and Beirut in lieu of an essay on feminism for a special issue of his magazine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eZawaya\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e on “Arab Women,” Etel Adnan unfolds startling meditations on gender, place, culture, landscape, vision, eros, illness, mortality, and war. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOf Cities and Women \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis a philosophical and poetic tour de force. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47286243950922,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Of-Cities-Women-Letters-to-Fawwaz_1993.jpg?v=1699474716"},{"product_id":"in-somnia","title":"IN\/SOMNIA","description":"\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reader quickly notices that Adnan refrains from following the traditional subject, verb, object sentence patterns and invents semantic and lexical items throughout her book. Sometimes, Adnan creates an auditory effect by adding vowels to words like “feever” and “stoooory.” Other times, her words are separated by slashes, hyphens, brackets, asterisks, and question marks or are followed by arrows and colons rather than dashes… Adnan’s use of such symbols conveys the illogic of war’s logic without ever mentioning the word “war.”\u003cbr\u003e— Rim Zahra and Razzan Zahra, \u003cem\u003eAl Jadid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"medium-push-4 medium-8 large-push-4 large-6 small-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"blurb columns\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"blurb-text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn\/somnia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e explores fissures within words as places where thought enters. Sleepless sleepers, we dream among ever more complex and hallucinatory realities: “in\/tense\/in\/season.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e— Rosemarie Waldrop\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47286246342986,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Insomnia_front-cover_72dpi.jpg?v=1699528436"},{"product_id":"night-1","title":"Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan’s evocative book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking book continues Adnan’s meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e'An undercurrent of uncertainty runs like a river through these pages where the physical movements of the world are paralleled with the movements of Adnan’s own brilliant mind. “Philosophy brings us back to simplicity,” she writes, as she attempts with great complexity to reconcile the irreconcilable: memory’s relationship to time.' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eKimberly Grey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47309408305482,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/71lWR9CIO7L._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1700168232"},{"product_id":"sea-and-fog","title":"Sea and Fog","description":"\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo striking lyric essays from master poet and philosopher Etel Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in \u003cem\u003eSea and Fog\u003c\/em\u003e, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures at once. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457099350346,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/81oA1cNdzHL._AC_UF894_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1703243045"},{"product_id":"time","title":"Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn October 27, 2003, Etel Adnan received a postcard from poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies. Originally in French, the poems it sparked collapse time, then expand it. War and love intertwine with coffee and bombs, memory and the present, evoking life in non- linear time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536037003594,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/45693780.jpg?v=1705412564"},{"product_id":"seasons","title":"Seasons","description":"\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSeasons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a series of prose poems concerning the seasons, but that’s just a starting point. Keeping her attention at the constant intersection of the self with climate and environment, Adnan writes: “To see is to think.” The result is a kind of inner dialogue between the senses and the mind, one’s skin and the world that blurs their boundaries. As the poet takes us into the nooks, crannies and abysses of her meditations, we encounter surrender and revelation throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47615865585994,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/1716398861-900.jpg?v=1728551683"},{"product_id":"there-in-the-light-and-darkness-of-the-self-and-other","title":"There: In the Light and Darkness of the Self and Other","description":"\u003cp\u003eEtel Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a prose poem that becomes a long and poignant interrogation. In it Adnan asks whether or not there is an other out there, or if it is all a matter of being alone in the world. And, to what degree can we know the other and what exactly do we know? There also investigates the conflicts that arise “as soon as we are two.” “A conversation,” she writes, “is the beginning of civilizations.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49341431775562,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/There_1997-574x800.jpg?v=1728025598"}],"url":"https:\/\/boekhandelperdu.nl\/collections\/etel-adnan.oembed","provider":"Boekhandel Perdu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}