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Qasida

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Poetry. Ostensibly a meditation on the elusive pre-Islamic Arabic qasida, or ode, this aphoristic essay by the author of FROM ISLAND TO ISLAND sketches a detailed and tactile poetics of vision and recollection. "A concept of form for the complex poem ... polyphonic shifting, fickle."

74 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

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