Barely There
Short Poems
Published on 23. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
86 pages
978-1-62564-279-0 (ISBN)
Description
The flashy poets and the poets with a schtick get the big audience, but it is the quiet poets whose individual poems more often linger with me. I'd trade all of Ginsberg, say, for William Bronk's six-line poem ""After Bach,"" which derives from the cello suites the lesson that sadness ""can be in part /to accept the absence of One to say it to."" And it is Bronk whose work is called to mind for me by Yahia Lababidi's Barely There, in which ""in embracing, we let go.""'
-- H. L. Hix, Author of First Fire, Then Birds
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
142 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62564-279-0 (9781625642790)
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08/2013
Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Person
Yahia Lababidi, author of eleven collections of poetry and prose. His aphorisms and poems have gone viral and are used in classrooms and religious services and have been featured at international film festivals.
Lababidi has also contributed to news, literary, and cultural institutions throughout the USA, Europe and the Middle East, including Oxford University, Pearson, the PBS NewsHour, NPR, HBO as well as ABC Radio.
His latest work includes a collection of his aphorisms on morality and mortality, Quarantine Notes (Fomite Press, 2023) and Desert Songs (Rowayat, 2022), a bilingual, photographic account of mystical encounters in the desert, and Learning to Pray (Kelsay Books, 2021) a collection of spiritual reflections.