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from
the warring factions
Ammiel Alcalay
preface by Diane di Prima
discussion with Benjamin Hollander
edited by Fred Dewey
UpSet
Press in collaboration with re:public presents: A Special
Series edited by Fred Dewey
The long
awaited second edition of from the warring factions
brings back into print Ammiel Alcalay’s book-length
poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, site of
the massacre of some seven thousand Muslim men and boys in
1995. This daring blend of lyric and document remaps the world
we inherit, from native New England to the Roman Empire, from
the Gulf War to Palestine and the Balkans. The late Adrienne
Rich has called from the warring factions the “kind
of poem I’ve been waiting to read.” And in her
new introduction, Diane di Prima writes “This book forced
me to redefine my life.” Accompanied by an extensive
discussion between Alcalay and poet Benjamin Hollander, as
well as a new preface by the author, this edition brings an
essential text of the post–9/11 world back into the
conversation.
"A
visionary writer and poet.”
—Wilson Harris
“from
the warring factions is a book without questions; a book
that answers itself and, in this way it is a useful and complete
book for our time, a kind of text-book.”
—Fanny Howe
“There
is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness
for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.”
—Etel Adnan
Poet,
novelist, translator, critic, and scholar, Ammiel
Alcalay is deputy chair of the PhD program
in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and former chair of
Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures
at Queens College. He is the founder and general editor, under
the auspices of the PhD program in English and the Center
for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, of Lost &
Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and has edited
texts by Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Diane di Prima, and
Joanne Kyger for the series.
Fred
Dewey is a writer, teacher, editor and activist
based in Los Angeles. He directed Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts
Center for fifteen years, from 1995 to 2010, building its
archive, readings, festivals, events, and publications, and
founded Beyond Baroque Books, editing and publishing over
nineteen books and anthologies.
November 2012
7 1/8 x 4 3/4 • 225 pages
$10.95 paper • 978-0-9760142-6-3
Distributed for UpSet Press.
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