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<p><b>WINNER of the INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE</b></p> <p><b>WINNER of the BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD</b></p> <p><b>FINALIST for the 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD</b></p> <p>On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies in Tunisia, sparking a collection of poems that would unspool over the next decade in a continuous discovery of the present moment. Originally written in French, these poems collapse time into single crystallized moments then explode outward to take in the scope of human history. In <i>Time, </i> we see an intertwining of war and love, coffee and bombs, empathetic observation and emphatic detail taken from both memory and the present of the poem to weave a tapestry of experience in non-linear time.</p>