Biography
Yahia Lababidi (–) |
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Yahia Lababidi is an aphorist, Pushcart-nominated poet with work appearing in such publications as World Literature Today, Cimarron Review, AGNI, Hotel Amerika, Rain Taxi and Philosophy Now and internationally published writer of Egyptian - Lebanese origin. His first book, Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press) was selected as a Book of the Year, , by The Independent (UK). Meantime, his latest works are, "Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing" a collection of literary and cultural essays, as well as "Fever Dreams" a poetry collection from Crisis Chronicles Press. To date, Lababidi’s writing has been translated into Arabic, Slovak, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish.
Otherwise, his work appears in several anthologies, including: Geary’s Guide to the World's Great Aphorists as well as the best-selling US college textbook, Literature: an Introduction to Reading and Writing (10th edition). Lababidi was chosen as a Juror for the Neustadt Prize (a biannual award widely considered the most prestigious international literary prize after the Nobel Prize in Literature).
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Meantime, Yahia Lababidi’s articles, essays and poems have appeared in journals world-wide, including:
Leviathan: Melville Studies (USA), Cimarron Review (USA), Ruminate (USA), Haight Ashbury Review (USA),
Mizna: Arab American Literature (USA), The Idler (UK), Dream Catcher (UK), Arena (Australia),
Montreal Serai (Canada), Bidoun: Middle East Arts and Culture, RAWI: Radius of Arab American Writers,
as well as online literary projects such as MAG and The Other Voices International project.
Yahia Lababidi
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Yahia Lababidi, an Egyptian-American thinker and poet, is the author of five books in four genres. His sixth book, a collection of aphorisms, is ready and fluttering wildly against the bars, awaiting an intrepid publisher. Lababidi has been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera and in The Guardian. For more information, please visit &#;
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What If
If he truly believed in angels
they would appear, I said in a dream
(of whom I spoke I can&#;t recall)
Then I remember disintegrating
into hot tears as I realized
that I also spoke of myself
And in that wild, greedy moment
I challenged an angel to appear
as I cowered in a darkened closet
Full of longing and terror, I endured
the suspense of that great What If
&#; relieved the angel did not answer.
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The Opposite of Virtue
One might say, a vice is a vise
never mind if metal or moral,
it’s basically the same device
with cunning moveable jaws
designed to fix us in place
and cheat us of a chance at grace
Impervious to all advice, habit
hotly whispers false reassurance
while tightening its iron grip
It takes no effort to slip into vice,
but virtue is trickier to stick to
like the back of a
The Exquisites: A Conversation with Yahia Lababidi
Yahia Lababidi is an aphorist, poet, and essayist whose work has appeared in such publications as World Literature Today, CimarronReview, Rain Taxi, and Philosophy Now. He is the author of a new poetry collection, Fever Dreams, an essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing, and a collection of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere, selected as a Book of the Year by The Independent (UK). Lababidi’s work has appeared in several anthologies, including the bestselling Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing and Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists. He was chosen as a juror for the Neustadt Prize for International Literature.
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