Copy Sylvia Plath an operatic form designed to

an operatic form designed to make the reader chant if reading aloud

Live Audio Essays presents transcripts from performances and films by Lawrence Abu Hamdan

is a cycle of sixty-one Arabic poems

like a saint's skull or a cock

Copy Sylvia Plath an operatic form designed toDolores Dorantes "Without the copying process," the poet Dolores Dorantes has said, "there would be no life, no reality." Through deconstructed dictionary entries and powerfully syncopated, recursive texts, Copy is a prose poem sequence that insinuates an experience of violent removal: a person's disappearance from a country, from normal life, and forcible reintegration into a new social and existential configuration. This displaced, dispossessed