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The front cover of Zeroes Were Hollow by David Larsen, published by Kenning Editions in 2022. Against a solid grey background, the book's title appears in bold block letters with a stylized triangle of smoke above and below. The author's name appears lower down, in smaller white block letters.

A horizontal band of pseudo-Arabic writing is painted in gold leaf upon a fabric woven from blue, tan, and ivory threads.

Hands at Work
A Study of Banausic Crafts
in Early Arabic Poetry

The front cover of Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh, edited and translated by David Larsen, and published by Wave Books in 2017. There is no image on this book's cover, only text.

Three stylized lilies appear against a yellow background on this Persian tile of the seventeenth century.

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