Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan
Etel Adnanis a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. She currently lives in Paris, France and Sausalito, California...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 February 1925
CountryLebanon
different world courageous
There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.
rivers dying way
Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.
pain war lying
To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and on the road. To hesitate; to go on, and ahead, and back, and up the stairs, and in one’s room. On the way, to notice that the mountain is still there. To lie and sleep, deeply, heavily. To reproduce night’s sleep. To wake up, look through the window at green water, from the Bay to the mountain, and return to one’s self. To remember that war is devastating Irak. To feel pain.
entities
Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.
cover
Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?
close compulsive expressed poetry rapid
Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.