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...outstanding characteristic of this poetry is its universality: the poets address broad philosophical, emotional, and social concerns. Their Arabic heritage obviously has shaped their perception, yet the difference in perspective does not detract from, and in fact enhances the Western reader's experience...
...AUTHORS represented the work of Nizar Qabbani is the most memorable. Qabbani, while writing about people and places far from the West, succeeds in bring the reader close to an understanding of his literary environment. Rejecting the narcotic apathy in the midst of progress that he considers the downfall of "Our defeated generation...," Qabbani appeals to the young to ignore their parents' example "For we have failed/Are worthless and banal as a melon rind...
...about pretentiousness. Adler presents a catalogue of images and events: her landlord is murdered, her friends' marriages break up, she catches a plane out of Egypt just before the outbreak of the 1967 war, a tenant in her brownstone steals another tenant's Sunday Times. She gracefully credits the reader with enough acuity to size up all this for himself...
...vignettes, few more than a paragraph long, are juxtaposed with apparent disregard for the way we supposedly perceive reality. However, the jaggedness of the narrative is happily suited to the subject matter of Speedboat, life with "the jet, the telephone, the boat, the train, the television. Dislocations." The reader learns about the characters and events of the book the way Jennifer learns about them: through the accumulation of isolated details...
...straight-forward and exact. The compactness and order of her language provides an interesting contrast to the structural choppiness of the book. Adler's control of her structure is also consistently good; in rendering the incoherence of experience, she never lets herself lapse into unintelligibility under the assumption the reader wouldn't notice. The contrast between her narrative control and the defiant irrationality of the life she describes effectively heightens the sensation of vertigo that Speedboat is intended to inspire...