Cold Water Shielded: Selected Poems

by Salah Stétié

Salah St ti (1929-2020) was a French Lebanese poet and essayist of international renown. In his exquisite, soberly beautiful poems, Western culture merges with Oriental and Arabic traditions. His writing has a swirling metaphysical dimension while never ceasing to root itself in earthy, sensuous experience. His poems evoke a deep, half-questioning, half-serene meditation of all that is 'hanging on the other side of being' - 'the great soft lion's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852244879
• ISBN13: 9781852244873
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"