Midnight Maps

Description

A collection of travelogues
Midnight Maps is the winner of the Ibn Battuta Prize for Geographical Literature and has been translated into numerous foreign languages. It is a travelogue of journeys to Istanbul, Tehran, Algiers, Athens, Cyprus, and Paris. These journeys, as the author intends them, are “a living exercise in poetry… a revival and rebirth of the body, just as poetry revitalizes the body of language, preventing it from calcifying and dying. The traveler is a wandering poet, dominated by the idea of ​​the age of humanity and the age of the earth, and the spirit of place. He is an authentic and enigmatic poet, a pioneering explorer, full of secrets. Like the poet, he is somewhat wild, and even animalistic, for he devours beauty with the voracity of a hungry beast…”