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SUGGESTED READING ORDER

Foreword

Levis Remembered
a reading loop including Levis: A Celebration
(fall 2010) conference events & papers

Larry Levis
   Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex

Peter Campion
   1989: Death on the Nile
   The Lions
   September

A Reading by David St. John

A Reading by Philip Levine

Thirteenth Annual Levis Prize Reading by Peter Campion

Nicky Beer
   The Inhuman Witness: Animals in the Poetry of Larry Levis

Peter Campion
   As if in the Sleep of the Other

Matt Donovan
   Unreality & Real Distress: Ekphrasis and Emotion in the Poems of Larry Levis

James Hoch
   Coming Through: The Intensity and Intimacy of Levis and Caravaggio

Anna Journey
   Seducing the Nymph from the Tree: Larry Levis, Metamorphosis, and Elegy

David Wojahn
   Ochre: An Introduction by Wojahn
   a suite of twenty–five poems and accompanying images
   Ochre Table of Contents

Charles Martin
A Classic in Paraphrase

Gulf Poets Suite

One Poet’s Story
Nimah Ismail Nawwab on Gathering the Tide and Blackbird’s Gulf Poets Suite

Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Gulf Poetry
Patty Paine, Jeff Lodge, and Samia Touati

Fowziyah Abu-Khalid
English translations by Ghassan Nasr with Joseph Heithaus
   Numerical Conjecture

Nujoom Al Ghanem
English translations by Khaled Mattawa
   Immigrant

Ashjan Al Hendi
English translations by Abdulla Al-Harrasi with Adrian Roscoe
   Grey Hair

Soad Al Kuwari
English translation by Fatima Mostafawi with Patty Paine
   The Flood

English translation by Sara Al Qatami with Patty Paine
   Modernity in the Desert

Reem Al Lawati
English translations by Issa J. Boullata
   May Love Be Praised

Ghalya Al Said
   The Car
   Malika and the Zar Dance

Abdallah Al Saikhan
English translations by Ayesha Saldanha
   The Poet
   Sword

Abdullah Al Salem
English translations by William M. Hutchins
   Emergency Meeting

Fawzia Al Sindi
English translations by Bahaa-eddin M. Mazin with Patty Paine
   from Less Than Ink

Khalid Albudoor
   All That We Have

Mohammad Almoghrabi
English translations by Khaled Al-Masri
   The Mural of Arrogance

Souad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah
English translations by Abdul-Wahid Lu’Lu’Ah
   Female 2000
   Ingratitude

Qassim Haddad
English translations by Khaled Mattawa
   Stone
   Words from a Young Night

Adel Khozam
English translations by Joseph T. Zeidan
   White Shame

Saadia Mufarreh
English translations by Hend Mubarek Aleidan with Patty Paine
   Soon She Will Leave

Nimah Ismail Nawwab
   Freedom Writers
   Illusions and Realities