Renee Gladman’s One Long Black Sentence

By Megan N. Liberty

DEC 20-JAN 21 | Art Books

The white lined drawings glow against the full-bleed black pages, encased in a black hardcover with embroidered white lines that are physically raised off the surface. These cityscapes, celestial scenes, and cartographic “paragraph drawings” conjure a vision of a different world, reconsidering the form of a sentence.

from Except for This Unseen Thread

by Ra’ad Abdulqadir, translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem

DEC 20-JAN 21 | Poetry

Ra’ad Abdulqadir (1953–2003) is a pioneer of the Iraqi prose poem, the author of five poetry collections, and a lifelong editor of Aqlam, Iraq’s leading literary magazine. Though a lifetime literary editor at the Ministry of Culture, Ra’ad’s last two manuscripts, Falcon with Sun Overhead and The Age of Entertainment, were blocked from being published in Iraq until after his death.

POEM (“popular fear…”)

By Simon Pettet

SEPT 2019 | Poetry

Simon Pettet is a long-time resident of New York's Lower East Side. His Collected Poems, HEARTH (from Talisman House) is essential reading. His most recent volume (from the same publishers) is AS A BEE

27. (Ridge Street, Attorney Street, South Bronx)

By Raphael Rubinstein

NOV 2020 | The Miraculous

A young graffiti artist creates an elaborate series of tags on the wall of a handball court on the Lower East Side. His mentor, a poet-playwright who learned the craft of writing while serving a sentence for armed robbery in Sing Sing, admires the graffiti so much that he urges a painter friend to immortalize it on a canvas.