Contains Mild Peril Mohamed Salah al-Azab but also setbacks due

but also setbacks due

and novelist Halim Barakat introduced by Bassam Frangieh

and an excerpt from his new novel in English translation

• Elsa Morante

we seek contributions from the present and the past

Contains Mild Peril Mohamed Salah al-Azab but also setbacks dueContains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety, not fatal threat, but the ambient manic hum of daily life. Precarity does something to us at the level of language; it shapes the ways we see and say. Our current climate ? political, environmental, economic ? engenders its own nervy music. These poems channel this collective apprehension in ways both deeply personal and instantly familiar. It is a collection that abounds in loss, in a sense of being