Poem Reading: "On the Margin" by Mostafa Nissabouri

You may purchase For an Ineffable Metrics of the Desert here. Translated by Guy Bennett, Pierre Joris, Addie Leak, and Teresa Villa-Ignacio and published by Otis Books - Seismicity Editions.

The cover of For an Ineffable Metrics of the Desert by Mostafa Nissabouri, and the poem On The Margin.

Mostafa Nissabouri seems to be a mountain of literary culture, uplifting and providing support for his fellow writers through journal creation and the establishment of a home for superb writing. This collection, For an Ineffable Metrics of the Desert, is a profound experience. Hundreds of pages of poems that meditate toward one’s responsibility toward art, toward creation, toward the human psyche when also contending with destruction, barrenness, and the full weight of history. Nissabouri’s work is pregnant with language, and for this any lover of the words that hold in the back of your throat like molasses are certainly going to be satisfied with entreating their selves with this work.