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SUMMARY:Readings From The Promised Land & High Desert
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies for a reading featuring André Naffis-Sahely\, Professor of English at University of California\, Davis and the editor of Poetry London in the UK. Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering\, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood\, from present-day London to North America\, André Naffis-Sahely’s bracingly plain-spoken first collection gathers portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: labourers\, travellers\, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. \nHigh Desert is André Naffis-Sahely’s second collection\, following his debut The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin Books\, 2017)\, a gathering of portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: travellers\, labourers\, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. \nRegister here for online attendance via Zoom. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. \nFull event information is available here. \nThis event is co-sponsored by UCLA Department of English and Comparative Literature. \n \nAndré Naffis-Sahely is the author of two collections of poetry\, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin UK\, 2017) and High Desert (Bloodaxe Books\, 2022)\, as well as the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press\, 2020). He also co-edited Mick Imlah: Selected Prose (Peter Lang\, 2015) and The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann (CB Editions\, 2013). He has translated over twenty titles of fiction\, poetry and nonfiction\, including works by Honoré de Balzac\, Émile Zola\, Abdellatif Laâbi\, Ribka Sibhatu and Tahar Ben Jelloun. His writing appears regularly in the pages of the Times Literary Supplement\, The Baffler and Poetry (Chicago)\, among others. He is a Lecturer at the University of California\, Davis in the US and the editor of Poetry London in the UK.
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