Orientalist Arabesque
Else Lasker-Schüler’s novela The Nights of Tino of Baghdad came to me a couple of weeks ago. It’s free to […]
Category: Istanbul
Diēs caniculārēs
In these dog days of July, I feel the heat dissipating every ounce of strength my body once contained. My […]
Byzantium/Old Istanbul (A Translation)
Byzantium The unpurged images of day recede;The Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed;Night resonance recedes, night walkers’ songAfter great cathedral gong;A […]
Istanbul 05: The Church
Procopius said is best: So the church has become a spectacle of marvelous beauty, overwhelming to those who see it, […]
Istanbul 05: The Church
Procopius said is best: So the church has become a spectacle of marvelous beauty, overwhelming to those who see it, […]
Istanbul 04: The Dervish
By revolving in harmony with all things in nature–with the smallest cells and with the stars in the firmament–the semazen […]
Istanbul 04: The Dervish
By revolving in harmony with all things in nature–with the smallest cells and with the stars in the firmament–the semazen […]
Istanbul 03: History is a Pile of Debris
Saturday, May 17, 2008, Turkoman Hotel, Istanbul Last night we went on the obligatory people-watching pilgrimage to Taksim in what […]
Istanbul 03: History is a Pile of Debris
Saturday, May 17, 2008, Turkoman Hotel, Istanbul Last night we went on the obligatory people-watching pilgrimage to Taksim in what […]
Istanbul 02: Travel Journal Except
Friday, May 16, 2008, Hotel Turkoman, Istanbul After what seems and certainly feels like two lost days of traveling across […]
