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Yahia Lababidi

Yahia Lababidi is an Egyptian-American poet, essayist and aphorist, the author of some sixteen books of poetry and prose. His first collection of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere, was named a 2008 Book of the Year by The Independent (UK), and his work appears in World Literature Today, AGNI and Philosophy Now, as well as in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists. In 2012 he served as a juror for the Neustadt Prize, one of the most prestigious international literary awards.

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The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi

Alex Stein, Yahia Lababidi

In a sequence of lyric conversations, aphorists Alex Stein and Yahia Lababidi summon the tortured, ecstatic spirits of Kafka, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Rilke and Kierkegaard. Part biography, part criticism, part incantation, it reads like a songline through the modern soul.