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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 Craft
in Early Arabic Poetry
The front cover of Zeroes Were Hollow by David Larsen, published by Kenning Editions in 2022. Against a mauve-colored 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
Three stylized lilies appear against a yellow background on this Persian tile of the seventeenth century.
Published scholarship
and translations
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.

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August 1, 2023

If lost in the hills

Against a terracotta-colored background, a Greek black-figure vase painting of a minotaur appears as if running in a rightward direction, with his head turned back to the left. The information for this poetry reading, which featured Evan Kennedy and David Larsen and took place on August 5, 2023, in the Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve of Oakland, California, appears in white type above and below the minotaur image. Source | Soundtrack

tr. by David Larsen at 3:01 PM  

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