Fever Dreams by Yahia Lababidi is
Crisis Chronicles Press' tenth poetry publication and (at the time of its release) our largest
yet. Published 27 June 2011, it features over 70 pages of the poet's best and most popular
works. Perfect bound and brilliantly illustrated by John Tillson, Fever Dreams
is available in a 6" x 9" paperback at the
discounted price of $9.99.
213 paperback copies in print. Fever Dreams is no longer available in e-book format. Paperback is out of print as of June 2015.
Sample Poems:
Click here to read "Cairo" from Fever Dreams in berfrois.
Click here to read "I Saw My Face" from Fever Dreams in Serving House Journal.
Click here to watch a short film by Swoon featuring "What do animals dream?" from Fever Dreams in Moving Poems.
Reviews:
Click here to read a review of Fever Dreams by Alex Sharp.
Click here to read Mary Clara White's review of Fever Dreams in Zouch magazine.
Click here to read an interview with the author in Tuck magazine.
Click here to read Yahia Lababidi's self interview about the book at The Nervous Breakdown.
Click here to read a review of Fever Dreams by Annalisa King (and her interview with the author) in Fluster.
Poet's biography (as of 2011, from the back of the book):
Yahia Lababidi is a Pushcart-nominated poet, aphorist and essayist with work appearing in such publications as AGNI, Harper's, Rain Taxi, New Internationalist and Philosophy Now. His work has also appeared in several anthologies, such as Geary’s Guide to the World's Great Aphorists, where he is the only contemporary Arab poet featured, and the best-selling US college textbook, Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. To date, Lababidi’s writing has been translated into Arabic, Slovak, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, and Turkish. He was recently chosen as a juror for the 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Lababidi’s first book Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press) was selected as a 2008 Book of the Year by The Independent, UK. His latest book is a critically-acclaimed collection of twenty-one literary and cultural essays, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly-dancing (Common Ground Publishing).
Click here to find out more about the author at Poets & Writers.
Click here to visit his YouTube channel.
