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Bilingual cover of Safe Fathy's Where Not to Be Born with English and Arabic titles and two images of paintings by Taraneh Mosadegh against a dark blue black cover

Where Not to Be Born

By Safaa Fathy

Translated by Rawad Z. Wehbe

Cover image of Another Room to Live In featuring sculpture by Simone Fattal

Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets

Edited by Omar Berrada, Sarah Riggs

Cover image for Sphinx by Liliane Giraudon shows the silhouette of a woman holding a bird upside down by the feet with wings splayed against a red background

Sphinx

By Liliane Giraudon

Translated by Lindsay Turner

I Caustic front cover with abstract painting by Moa Bennani in black taupe and rust colors

I, Caustic

By Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine

Translated by Jake Syersak

White cover with image of artwork by Alison Rossiter titled Density 1947. Six gelatin prints in off-white and beige, with book title, author and translator names below.

Body Was

By Isabelle Garron

Translated by Eléna Rivera

Clamor (Clameur) by Hocine Tandjaoui, Translated by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Book cover showing a figure in bright red, magenta and yellow falling backward or dancing, the background is a sketch drawing of black and red charcoal forming two square like frames, the space where they meet is filled with black dots.

Clamor

By Hocine Tandjaoui

Translated by Olivia C. Harrison, Teresa Villa-Ignacio

In the Environs of a Film by Danielle Colbert, Book cover showing a drawing of boats in birds-eye-view, greyscale

In the Environs of a Film

By Danielle Collobert

Translated by Nathanaël

cover of Bewildered by michael a sells; light grey background with a four by five grid of colorful square-shaped smudges, title in white typed text centered near top

Bewildered

By Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi

Translated by Michael Sells

A Transpacific Poetics edited by Lisa Samuels & Sawako Nakayasu, Book cover showing seven differently ornamented ribbons moving vertically across the page.

A Transpacific Poetics

Edited by Lisa Samuels, Sawako Nakayasu

cover of Anti-Humboldt by Hugo Garcia Manriquez, black and white aerial photo of roads, one road splitting into three and curving off the sides of the page, the other cutting straight across diagonally

Anti-Humboldt

By Hugo García Manríquez

cover of Mirages by Issa Makhlouf; navy blue background with large white rectangle in the middle with black doodle drawings inside

Mirages

By Issa Makhlouf

Translated by Alicia F. Lam

cover of Mum Is Down by Oscarine Bosquet; brown background with large yellow square in the middle with three thick blue lines inside

Mum is Down

By Oscarine Bosquet

Translated by Cole Swensen, Simone Fattal

cover of Winter by Eugenie Paultre; painting of apartment buildings at dusk, light shinign through the windows

Winter

By Eugénie Paultre

Translated by Cole Swensen, Simone Fattal, Etel Adnan

cover of lazy suzie by suzanne doppelt, translated by cole swensen; two b&w repeated images of an icy lakeand a snowy shore with a bench and three bare trees, the left image is upside down and adjusted so the horizon lines on each image match

Lazy Suzie

By Suzanne Doppelt

Translated by Cole Swensen

Amnesia of the Movement of Clouds & of Red and Black Verse by Maria Attanasio, translated by Carla Billitteri, Bookcover showing white horizontal lines across a black background, accentuated by white dots

Amnesia of the Movement of Clouds / Of Red & Black Verse

By Maria Attanasio

Translated by Carla Billitteri

Crossings by Habib Tengour; forest green background with large white rectangle in the middle with black doodle drawings inside

Crossings

By Habib Tengour

Translated by Marilyn Hacker

cover of Murder by Danielle Collobert, translated by Nathanaël; b&w photo of a crumbline apartment building, with a sky that turns into a stone wall

Murder

By Danielle Collobert

Translated by Nathanaël

cover of Vision of the Return by Amin Khan; maroon background with large light blue square near center, three differently sized thcik lines stacked vertically move horizontally across blue square, one light blue, one light brown, one maroon

Vision of the Return

By Amin Khan

Translated by Dawn-Michelle Baude

cover of Maribor by demosthenes agrafiotis, light yellow-green background with a large off-white rectangle in the middle and black doodles inside, black typed text of title and author name centered above

Maribor

By Demosthenes Agrafiotis

Translated by John Sakkis, Angelos Sakkis

cover of Time of Sky Castles in the Air by Ayane Kawata, translated by Sawako Nakayasu; illustration of bare trees growing out of grey water

Time of Sky & Castles in the Air

By Ayane Kawata

Translated by Sawako Nakayasu

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