Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poetsed. Omar Berrada and Sarah Riggs Another Room to Live In is an archive of encounter: a multilingual conversation between fifteen poet translators, connected through friendship, correspondence, and cross diasporic gatherings. With work in English, Arabic, and French, the collection moves beyond both language and nation state, investing instead in transcontinental dreamspaces. Here, translation practices collaboratively transform the poems and reflect

In which Bette Davis—given her break by Cukor—watches herself in Waterloo Bridge (the 1940 remake Cukor had been meant to direct)

these poems effortlessly find dream-life and myth transforming the daily actions of talking on the phone or finding your reflection in the window

Moving through the Leibniz-Newton Calculus Controversy

little magazines such as Outburst

drawing and writing become part of a limitless loop of energy

toward translation

A kind of doomsday hopelessness both invigorates and subdues all questions of what it means to be a living and breathing human

and a final

Vier essays en vier Celan-brieven

anti-capitalist

and of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit

This brilliant arrangement of essays