Table of Contents
Street Scenes
Lauds 3
Blazons 4
Again, for Hayden 8
Friends and Daughters 10
Paragraph 10
Ghazal: Across the Street 11
Itinerants 13
Ghazal: Style 20
Vendanges 21
A Farewell to the Finland Woman 24
Road Work 28
Ghazal: Myself 31
Canzone 32
Some Translations
Fadwa Suleiman: from 'Genesis', Laurel 37
Habib Tengour: First Apparition: Illustrious Stellar Alphabet 41
Sania Saleh: Autumn of Freedom 47
Guy Goffette: Five Poems 51
Golan Haji: Four Poems 55
Yasser Khanjer: Between Two Cells 59
Samira Negrouche: To Invent the Word? 62
Marie Étienne: from 'The Japanese Notebook' 65
Calligraphies and other poems
Le Sancerre: September 73
Calligraphies I 77
Ghazal: $$$ 84
Glose 85
Ghazal: Arabic 87
Pomegranate 88
Ghazal: Nothing 90
Calligraphies II 91
For Despina 97
Calligraphies III 99
Pantoum 104
Calligraphies IV 105
Nieces and Nephews 112
Calligraphies V 114
Ghazal: Your face 119
Calligraphies VI 120
Ghazal: The Dark Times 126
Ce qu'il reste à vivre 127
Calligraphies VII 131
Calligraphies VIII 136
After Forty Days ('Arbaoun) 143
Calligraphies IX 144
Calligraphies X 151
Index of Poem Titles 157