EVEREST, INC. ~

 

R E A D   M E

    Simon & Schuster 2024

LIFE IS ARCHITECTURE ~

 

I. M. P  E I

      Thames & Hudson

       2024

ROBERTO TEJADA ~

 

Grassland

Flax color patches of flash-flame

    vast little grassland

disturbance come

    in splinter light

intractable

*

    morning dispersed

on encrusted earth

    in gravel shade

casting mineral

    hold given over

to whatever survives

*

    misgiven views

in diagonal glare

    to the far mount

above the patter

    of pronghorn

luted beyond

    the lashing Tyvek

house-wrap

    from a single wide

exoskeleton

*

    over winter disruption

given on proximity

    long unbroken

underspread

    of ground

in miles    

    to the great elevation

the other name

    for eye and throat

for land tilt

    delivery

*

here is the fiend

    of family

ferocity

    here is the god

to reversing

    genesis

as again to grace

    once-broken

blades of agave

    with blooming

_____________________

Roberto Tejada

Carbonate of Copper

Fordham University Press, 2025

    

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R E A D   M E

      Bloomsbury 2025

NAGUIS MAHFOUZ ~

 

Dream 231

I saw Ibrahim Pasha emerge right out of his own statue

and go wandering from cafe to cafe, challenging the top

backgammon champions and defeating them one by one.

Dream 232

I found myself in the Al Ghouriya district and there were

twice as many police as civilians. I saw my father walking

toward me with a policeman on either side of him. I pan-

icked, thinking he was under arrest. But then he greeted

 me and said: I see a policeman on either side of you, and

I'm afraid you've been arrested.

Dream 233

I found myself in our old house in El Abbassiya, with my

mother and sisters overcome with grief over the death of

our faithful and much-loved dog. I had only ever seen them

in such a state when the dearest to us had passed away.

Dream 234

I saw myself as the proprietor of a large farm around which

I had built a modern village with clean running water and

electricity. There was also a hospital, a school, a mosque,

and a church. I'd doubled the wages of the workers. Then

the warden of the district came to tell me: You stand accused

of showing up the neighboring landlords and, therefore, of

inciting anarchy and revolt among the innocent peasants.

Dream 235

I found myself in a group of young men listening to Osman

Bouzi, the most prominant producer of perfumes during

my youth: he was calling on us to boycott foreign goods.

My father told me, sitting cross-legged on his prayer rug:

That's all very well, but we haven't yet manufactured the

most essential products. I told him: Well, let's start with

what is possible.

Dream 236

I saw myself entering a new apartment, with the doorman

leading the way. Then he was nowhere to be seen. I became

homesick and wanted to leave, but I couldn't find my way

out. Voices, offering guidance, began to direct me. Some-

times they said to turn right and other times left. I called

out to the doorman, and then I called out to my family.

Darkness fell, everything was confusion. And yet, some-

how, I never altogether lost hope.

______________________

Naguib Mahfouz

I Found Myself . . .

translated by Hisham Matar

New Directions, 2025

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R E A D   M E

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R EA D   M E

Dalkey Archive

     The John Day Company, 1973

TAKE MY NAME. . .

 

R E A D   M E

      Norton, 2025

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R E A D   M E

    Mariner Books

    2025

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R E A D   M E

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THE LONG RUN ~

 

R E A D   M E

   Graywolf, 2024

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R E A D   M E

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TOWNES VAN ZANDT TONIGHT ~

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LANGSTON HUGHES ~

 

Our Land

(Poem for a Decorative Panel)

We should have a land of sun,

Of gorgeous sun,

And a land of fragrant water

Where the twilight is a soft bandanna handkerchief

Of rose and gold,

and not this land where life is cold.

We should have a land of trees,

Of tall thick trees,

Bowed down with chattering parrots

Brilliant as the day,

And not this land where birds are grey,

Ah, we should have a land of joy,

Of love and joy and wine and song,

And not this land where joy is wrong

Oh, sweet, away!

Ah, my beloved one, away!

__________________________

Langston Hughes

Blues in Stereo

Legacy 2024

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the 

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the

way it

is.

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R E E D   M E

Why No Confederate

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 Baraka Books, 2019

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