Barely There
Short Poems
Published on 23. August 2013
86 pages
978-1-62189-847-4 (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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Yahia Lababidi is an Egyptian-American thinker and Pushcart-nominated poet, whose work has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. To date, Lababidi is the author of 4 well-received books, in 4 different genres: Signposts to Elsewhere (aphorisms), Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing (essays), Fever Dreams (poems), and most recently, The Artist as Mystic (conversations).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Breath
- Embracing, We Let Go
- Exchanges
- Spirit
- Reaching
- Two of Us
- St. Sebastian
- For Rimbaud
- Meditation
- The Opposite of Virtue
- Misread Signs
- Defiant Muse
- Taut
- Since
- Notebook
- Mystery of Doors
- Spokespersons
- Ambassadors
- Mystic, Misfit
- Fanciful Creators
- Advice
- Gaze
- Unentitled
- Mortality
- If . . . Then
- Equations
- Transportation
- Truth in Advertising
- Diets
- Dusk to Dawn
- Hide and Seek
- Desert Trance
- Mountains
- I Saw My Face
- Skin
- Eros
- Kisses
- Stretches
- Resume
- Stamina
- A Metaphor
- Hope
- Morning
- Sisyphus
- Yield
- Liberation
- Incommunicable
- What If
- Destiny
- Circumstances
- Colombia
- The Poet
- Hard Days
- Poet Try
- Master and Servant
- Artists
- Pen Pal
- Coordinates
- Love
- Expedition
- Options
- Overheard
- Surrogates
- Feedings
- I-lashes
- Hothouse
- Hunter and Hunted
- Short Eternities
- Dark Room
- Drylands
- Afterthought
- Lovers
- Egypt
- Kneeling in Stages
