It is in California that Etel Adnan started to write and paint in
leporellos. In the early sixties, the poet and painter left Lebanon “by
running all the way to California. An exile, which lasted for years,” she
writes in In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (City Lights Books,
2005), a haunting exploration of identity, history, displacement, and war
from an Arab American perspective. California, for Adnan, was not just a
destination, but a space where thoughts could unfold like a
leporello—accordion-like, nonlinear, alive.

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