TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waberi ,Abdourahman A.
AU  - Carlson,Nancy Naomi  (tr.)
TI  - NAMING THE DAWN
SN  - 9780857425461
U1  - 821 
PY  - 2018////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Seagull
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Spiritual life -- Poetry
KW  - Islam -- History -- Poetry
KW  - Poets -- Poetry
N1  - The poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond—with words, with the history of Islam and its great poets, with the landscapes those poets walked, among which Waberi grew up. The sage yearns here for the simplicity of each individual moment to somehow become eternal, for the histories and people that are part of him—his mother, his wife, his unborn child, the sacred texts that ground his being—to come together harmoniously within him, and to emerge through his words. Lyrical and personal, but with powerful historical and cultural resonances, these poems are the work of a master at the height of his powers.

About the Author
Abdourahman A. Waberi, from Djibouti, is a prize-winning novelist, essayist, poet, and professor of Francophone literature at George Washington University. Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet and translator.; Contents:Machine generated contents note: Living Soul 
O Men 
May My Right Hand Forget Me 
Slantwise 
Touchstones 
Juvenescence 
Of a Salvo in Its Shrine 
At the Botanical Garden 
Seemingly No Big Deal 
Chasing after Death 
Bottle 
Yes, but What Do You Say about This, My Daughter? 
Language of Birds 
Daily Awakening 
Reader 
O Mother 
Absence 
Sepia 
Vanity 
It's a Girl 
Yesterdaze 
Spiritual Exercises 
Access 
Aura 
Anchor 
Turn Away from the Cramped Attentional Tunnel 
Ascension 
Asceticism 
Pavement Struggle 
Shroud for All Time 
Wager 
Bees 
Wedding 
In a Naked Voice 
Detente 
O Rising Sun 
Sitting 
Axis 
Advent 
Not a Day Will Pass 
Faerie 
Hoopoe
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