paperback, 108 pages, 6 x 8 1/4 in
Publication Date: 2012
Winner: The 2013 Lambda Book Prize in Poetry
Winner: The 2013 California Book Award in Poetry
Runner-Up: The 2013 Arab American Book Award
These 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 Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures at once.
“Etel Adnan sharpens the starkness of the world of matter and anti-matter. These texts are psalms that stretch from the sublime to the violent, journey from Yosemite Valley to a soldier’s jeep in the desert, and gather from Dostoevsky to Scalapino. A history, a gospel, a prayer book, it dwells in the divine.”—Elmaz Abinader