Yahia Lababidi

Yahia Lababidi is an internationally published aphorist, poet, and essayist, with work appearing in such publications as World Literature Today, Cimarron Review, AGNI, Rain Taxi, and Philosophy Now. He is the author of a new poetry collection, Fever Dreams (Crisis Chronicles Press), an essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing, and a collection of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press), selected as a 2008 Book of the Year by The Independent (UK). He was recently chosen as a juror for the 2012 Neustadt Prize for International Literature.

Courtesy of the artist, “drylands” and “You again” appear in "Fever Dreams", published by Crisis Chronicles in 2011.

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The words in a poem are merely the tip of the iceberg

Ars Poetica

It should seem odd   to buy and sell flesh   for who can measure love or pain

The skin of things

I visit my grandfather quite often, lately

Giddoo

What's the difference, he quietly asks

Taedium Vitae

Could it be, that from the start

For Rimbaud

Tell me, have you found a sea

drylands

You again, of the singing wound

You again