Naming the Dawn
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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Living Soul
Spiritual Exercises
Translator’s Notes
Acknowledgements
Living Soul
O Men
May My Right Hand Forget Me
Slantwise
Touchstones
Juvenescence
Of a Salvo in Its Shrine
At the Botanical Garden
Seemingly No Big DealMay My Right Hand Forget Me
Slantwise
Touchstones
Juvenescence
Of a Salvo in Its Shrine
At the Botanical Garden
Chasing after Death
Bottle
Yes, but What Do You Say about This, My Daughter?
Language of Birds
Daily Awakening
Reader
O Mother
Absence
Sepia
Vanity
It’s a Girl
Yesterdaze
Bottle
Yes, but What Do You Say about This, My Daughter?
Language of Birds
Daily Awakening
Reader
O Mother
Absence
Sepia
Vanity
It’s a Girl
Yesterdaze
Spiritual Exercises
Access
Aura
Anchor
Turn Away from the Cramped Attentional Tunnel
Ascension
Asceticism
Pavement Struggle
A Shroud for All Time
Wager
Bees
Wedding
In a Naked Voice
Détente
O Rising Sun
Sitting
Axis
Advent
Not a Day Will Pass
Faerie
The Hoopoe
Aura
Anchor
Turn Away from the Cramped Attentional Tunnel
Ascension
Asceticism
Pavement Struggle
A Shroud for All Time
Wager
Bees
Wedding
In a Naked Voice
Détente
O Rising Sun
Sitting
Axis
Advent
Not a Day Will Pass
Faerie
The Hoopoe
Translator’s Notes
Acknowledgements
Review Quotes
Elera Bertho, Diacritick, on the French edition
“With Naming the Dawn, Abdourahman A. Waberi delivers a magnificent poetic art, where the deciphering of the poem—the patient rhythm of reading, listening to signs—is a discovery of self and sacred texts, and ultimately, of the religious spirit . . . Mingling indiscriminately poetic writing and reading of the sacred texts—of the Quran—the author proposes here a formidable plea in favor of tolerance and openness.”
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