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Another Room to Live In: 15 contemporary Arab poets---Litmus Press.

Trilingual. Some Arabic OV translated into French, others into English. Accompanied by discussions between poets and translators for each poem---which takes you into the poetics 'between the poems'.

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Apr 25Liked by Christopher Frizzelle

Starting Myra Breckenridge tonight! I loved Vidal’s City and Pillar—excited to see how this one is

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Apr 25Liked by Christopher Frizzelle

Will finish Food Rules by Michael Pollan and after that I haven't decided yet.

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I am reading a collection of poems by the Portuguese Poet Eugénio de Andrade

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Apr 24Liked by Christopher Frizzelle

Havana Glam, by Wu Ming, and Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow

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Apr 24Liked by Christopher Frizzelle

I've picked up the Mead again, too! I kinda love prude-Mary Ann Evans. I famously was a little prude in high school, too--some friends (still friends) cracked open a 6-pack of beer suddenly and I shouted, in my prude-iest Mary Ann Evans voice, "Take me home, BEFORE YOU ALL GET TOO WASTED." And now? I'll defend prude-ass Mary Ann Evans to the death.

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