Yasmine Seale: Writing in the Dark: Shahrazad & the Art of Staying Alert (ASL)
Room: Art & Music, 3rd Floor
In "Writing in the Dark: Shahrazad & the Art of Staying Alert," The Annotated Arabian Nights translator Yasmine Seale discusses literatures most loquacious liberator and what her method teaches us now.
Yasmine Seale’s work includes poetry, criticism, translation and visual art. Her essays on literature, art and film have appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, Paris Review, 4Columns, and elsewhere. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton), described by The New Yorker as “an electric new translation”, and Something Evergreen called Life, a collection of poems by the Sudanese writer and activist Rania Mamoun (Action Books). She is the co-author of Agitated Air, a collaboration with Robin Moger responding to the visionary poet and metaphysician Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press). She is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Room: Art & Music, 3rd Floor
In "Writing in the Dark: Shahrazad & the Art of Staying Alert," The Annotated Arabian Nights translator Yasmine Seale discusses literatures most loquacious liberator and what her method teaches us now.
Yasmine Seale’s work includes poetry, criticism, translation and visual art. Her essays on literature, art and film have appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, Paris Review, 4Columns, and elsewhere. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton), described by The New Yorker as “an electric new translation”, and Something Evergreen called Life, a collection of poems by the Sudanese writer and activist Rania Mamoun (Action Books). She is the co-author of Agitated Air, a collaboration with Robin Moger responding to the visionary poet and metaphysician Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press). She is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
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