Except for Breath – Lucienne Bestall
When it comes to talk of war––the city destroyed, the city inflamed––Bestall is attracted to Beirutians’ cool detachment, their resilience that shies away from heroism, their elegant remove, which characterizes so much of her writing.
Silent, Still, Singing, Still: Two Poets in Chorus
Look closely, and all things seem to have been touched by someone’s pain—all things optical, chemical, mechanical. Everything blossoms in destruction, everything is a deathly flower.
CHRONOLOGY is a polyvocal text, a poetics of archive. The act of reading feels akin to debriefing with a friend. The impulse to help pull it together collectively.