Zodiac of Echoes [Hardcover]

Khaled Mattawa (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2008

Jahan Ramazani has written that “These dazzling lyrics and sequences create one of the most compelling portraits we have of a mind, a sensibility, a language emerging from the hybridization of cultures.”

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"A recognition of his place in this American scene that's worked its way in deep enough to make poetry." -- Poetry International, 2005

His changing voice and mix of subjects make for sudden turns and surprising moments. -- West Branch, 2004

Zodiac of Echoes is part divination of celestial bodies, part reading between the lying lines of cold type. -- C.D. Wright, Brown University Professor --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"A recognition of his place in this American scene that's worked its way in deep enough to make poetry." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Ausable Press; First Edition edition (September 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931337047
• ISBN-13: 978-1931337045
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,279,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Zodiac of Echoes, October 28, 2004

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This review is from: Zodiac of Echoes: Poems (Paperback)

Kaleidescopic in structure and movement, daringly personal yet intensely political, his verse encompasses narrative, satire, meditation, and high-spirited hilarity. One moment, we're stuck in a highway on the way to the history-glutted Mississippi river. The next, questions of exile, identity, and linguistic alienation spiral in a poem set in a jaunty Cairo taxi ride. Line by line we turn from zany wisecracks about globalization to solemn invocations of the moon, from intensely felt lyricism to splintered, televisual, attention-franctured deferrals of feeling. . . These dazzling lyrics and sequences create one of the most compelling portraits we have of a mind, a sensibility, a language emerging from the hybridization of cultures-Jahan Ramazani

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5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting...Evocative..Transporting, December 11, 2003

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This review is from: Zodiac of Echoes: Poems (Paperback)

With ZODIAC OF ECHOES, Khaled Mattawa has done it again (if you haven't read ISMALIA ECLIPSE, you must!), offering readers an intimate glimpse at foreign worlds, as well as new ways of looking at our own. He is one of those gifted poets whose words need only be read once to reverberate in memory for a lifetime. Ah, but then you read them again and again for the simple pleasure of them. Bravo!