Frieze Prints Excerpt From Etel Adnan's Shifting the Silence

Don't miss it: Frieze shared an excerpt from Shifting the Silence, artist, writer, and poet Etel Adnan's new book, forthcoming from Nightboat Books in September. An excerpt from the excerpt:

I am wearing the rose colour of Syria’s mountains and I wonder why it makes me restless. Often my body feels close to sea creatures, sticky, slimy, unpredictable, more ephemeral than need be. From there I have to proceed, as an avalanche of snow falls. That’s what the radio has just said: that entire villages have been made invisible. But they are faraway: the news never covers my immediate environment.

 And having more memories than yearnings, searching in unnameable spaces, Sicily’s orchards or Lebanon’s thinning waters, I reach a land between borders, unclaimed, and stand there, as if I were alone, but the rhythm is missing.

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