Clay Tablets in Nietzsche's Cave is a masterful, poetic work--and as momentous
for the reception of Arabic poetry in English as was the discovery of the
Dead Sea Scrolls for theologians and anthropologists. These "clay
tablets"--excavated
ostensibly from the cave of the Neanderthal of atheistic philosophy--unfurl
a tour-de-force of aphoristic verses insisting on our need to sing,
especially in negotiating our existence as animate dust, prostrate before
Divinity