Guests of EternityLarissa Miller is one of Russia's most highly regarded writers novelist, essayist and poet and this selection from her collection Between the Cloud and the Pit (1999) spans her poetic output from the 1960s to the millennium. Guests of Eternity is a presentation, in chronological order, of poems written (but not published) in the three decades preceding glasnost' as well as the final decade of the twentieth century. Here are political poems from the

in the jazz world and beyond

Abed Ismael – Selected poems from Voices

Lamiah Abbas Imara

sitting down softly on the edge of the bed

In the grey north sky and no one thinks of dying…

Abdelkader Benali – Poems Ibn Khaldoun in Hollandia Felix

Ahmed Mourad – Excerpt from the novel Vertigo

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I know this in my scant Estonian: that laul

Samer Abu Hawwash – Three Poems

Ounsi El-Hage

Eliot and various American Beat Generation poets into Latvian