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    Night

    By Etel Adnan

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    Etel Adnan’s evocative new book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking new book continues Adnan’s meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNightboat Books
    Release dateJul 27, 2020
    ISBN9781643620596
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      Night - Etel Adnan

      Standing trees sleep in this forest that created the night when the moon was looking elsewhere. Gone the sailboats, the sea, in this obscurity that’s keeping no promise

      A field of rosebushes has been flattened by the wind.

      Shadows strangely resemble yesterday’s trees, yesterdays and tomorrows being the walls of our prisons.

      Those shadows have landed us into taxis and houses, telling the light to stay outside

      but the moon was right not to bother.

      The wedding of history with the coffee we drink in our ever shrinking days awakes our need to reinvent love.

      Empty shells lie on the beach in hours always uncertain.

      The Indian will not cut the grass because, he says, that’s his mother’s hair, and I assured him that I will not break a stone because that might well be his spirit’s house.

      Philosophy brings us back to simplicity.

      Now waves of roses are blanketing memory, but childhood’s desire to enter time’s core remains. Nothing is stirring. Grass grows differently than words. In those roses, infinity’s infinity

      The wish to inhabit storms leads to cities in flames. Traces turn into signs and thinking precedes itself in the deep recesses of the brain. Bodies are always naked under their clothes.

      Words melt in reflections; that’s why there’s a uselessness to this night, to my missing the river, to the delaying of love… light is picking up momentum in the vicinity of the oaks that cover this property, this

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