In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Winner of the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry This poem responds to Iman Mersal’s “Traces of Enayat” (Al Kotob Khan, 2019), which uncovers the life and death of the Egyptian writer Enayat Al-Zayyat (1936-1963), whose only novel was published posthumously. The italicized text on the left has been translated—at […]

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Winner of the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry This poem responds to Iman Mersal’s “Traces of Enayat” (Al Kotob Khan, 2019), which uncovers the life and death of the Egyptian writer Enayat Al-Zayyat (1936-1963), whose only novel was published posthumously. The italicized text on the left has been translated—at