Near, At Lamia Makaddam placing already celebrated authors and

placing already celebrated authors and translators alongside less established voices

"Robert Creeley's poetry is as basic and necessary as the air we breathe

the sunlight suddenly switched off

enemies and lovers - be touched and held

PUNT holds an elsewhere’s gently exorcized quotidian

Near, At Lamia Makaddam placing already celebrated authors andJennifer Soong Near, At follows the inherent strangeness of ones consciousness as it observes and comes into contact with the physical world. A sustained exploration of language, capitalism, gender, and nature, Near, At traverses and measures the movement of silence against the movement of thought and its pauses. Divided into five parts, each with its own form, and followed by a series of ongoing love poems called MY CHRISTOPHER POEMS, this debut