The flashy poets and the poets with a schtick get the big audience, but it is the quiet poets whose individual poems more often linger with me. I'd trade all of Ginsberg, say, for William Bronk's six-line poem "After Bach," which derives from the cello suites the lesson that sadness "can be in part /to accept the absence of One to say it to." And it is Bronk whose work is called to mind for me by Yahia Lababidi's Barely There, in which "in embracing, we let go."' -- H. L. Hix, Author of First Fire, Then Birds

Yahia Lababidi, Egyptian-American, is the author of two critically acclaimed books of aphorisms: Signposts to Elsewhere (Hay House, 2019) and Where Epics Fail (Unbound, 2018). Lababidi is also the author of 4 well-received books of poetry and prose. He has participated in international literary festivals throughout the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East.