Staying Alive Saleh al-Azzaz This provocative debut collection

This provocative debut collection

Entries include an insightful interview with Pulitzer prize-winning poet Sharon Olds

The age-old association of food and sexuality is inscribed with the sacred connotations of a 'holy sin'

Nasser al-Dhaheri on The Beginnings of the Emirati Short Story

What follows is filled with emotional drive and a spiritual restlessness

Staying Alive Saleh al-Azzaz This provocative debut collectionIn her fourth poetry collection, Staying Alive, Laura Sims envisions the state of the world and of human existence before, during and after the forever imminent apocalypse. In channeling and sampling works of apocalyptic fiction and non fiction The War of the Worlds, The World Without Us, How to Stay Alive in the Woods, and The Road, to name a few the poems, along with a final essay, explore multiple world endings and their possible outcomes, and pose