Mister N Ryan Van Winkle

Mister N Ryan Van WinkleModern day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile, on the streets below, a grim pageant: poverty, violence and fear. How is anyone supposed to write deathless prose in such circumstances? Let alone an old man like Mister N., whose life and memories have become scattered, whose

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warehouses converted to luxury apartments

transparent and profane

but also the rescuing force of female wildness

Robert Wyatt

close to the primordial world of spirts and myths

In a heartfelt rejection of 'stiff upper lip' culture

might we come to see the buildings

poems of witness and poems of activism

this is a rare opportunity to bear witness to a beautiful mind at work

the solemn

an ostensible care for writing as fitting together a world in words as if out of nowhere