(69 pages, written in French) (Ed. Caractères, Paris, 2010)
Book-length poem launching the first queries about ECR, connected to the performative dimension that became “The American in Paris is an Iranian in New York”, and intertextually constructed/connected to the first cant of the Divine Comedy. The long poem takes the reader through the psychic and emotional landscape of coming to life, enduring, overcoming, and carrying on, perhaps, on the path…
(Came back exhausted in June 2010 from Paris, fresh from an epic 7 hour march and performative readings and writings in the streets of Paris. ‘You brought in on yourself’ a friend told me, and it was true. Reading and re-writing the book, translating it, adding to it, within the ‘nodes-and-gaps’ theory I have, along with the ‘germinations’ from the nodes… With a blackboard on my shoulder, an iPad in my hand, and the book in the other, it was quite the scriptage—ambulatory writing and literary experience, the first one… The beginning never ends: always there, always)