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The Book of RainAb Zayd al Anr The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud. So begins translator David Larsens introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather words, by early Arabic linguist Ab Zayd al Anr. In Larsens translation, Ab Zayds lexicography of rain is simultaneously an academic, archival, and poetic pursuit. After the fashion of Larsens award winning translation of Names of the Lion, these rich, extensive lists

of laat je je juist gelden en houd je die wereld een spiegel voor

” In the instant of childbirth

Confidences / Majority

zomaar op straat – het is haar zachte

from jellyfish and "premodern thoughts

as in the final moments of an eight-line poem that ends

onbesuisd spel en kritiek

all in the firm hold of song

Was It for This continues that book’s project

now in a revised second edition

these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form

‘It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem