DRAMATIS PERSONAE Sycophant 1 : : Sycophant 2 : : Sycophant 3 : : High Priestess : : Madwoman 1 : : Madwoman 2 Madwoman 3 : : General : : Victor : : Blind Poet : : Neanderthal Man 1 : : Neanderthal Woman 1 Neanderthal Man 2 : : Neanderthal Woman 2 : […]
Abdellatif Laâbi
ABDELLATIF LAÂBI, internationally celebrated poet, playwright, novelist, activist, was officially but uncertainly born in 1942 in Fez, Morocco. He helped found the journal Souffles in 1966, eight issues of which were printed in Arabic as Anfas. In 1972 the journal was banned and Laâbi received a ten-year prison sentence for “crimes of opinion.” He was released in 1980 and denied work and a passport until 1985 when he left for Paris, where he still lives. He describes his work as “the inner quest and the desire of the human condition,” couched in ironies that “maintain the clarity that is compatible with hope.”
Contributor Bios for Issue 1 Spring 2009
Issue 1 Spring 2009 V. JOSHUA ADAMS is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and editor of Chicago Review. JOE AMATO‘s recent books include Pain Plus Thyme (Factory School 2008) and Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture (Iowa 2006). His memoir, Once an Engineer: A Song of the Salt City, is forthcoming later […]
MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 1 Spring 2009
FEATURED ARTIST David-Baptiste Chirot NECESSITY IS THE MOTHERFUCKER OF INVENTION thoughts on the delete button THE NEW EXTREME EXPERIMENTAL AMERICAN POETRY a gallery featuring the visual works of poet, artist, and human rights activist David-Baptiste Chirot Jared Schickling, David-Baptiste Chirot FINDING THE ROOOT an interview conducted by Jared Schickling with David-Baptiste Chirot that will […]
