Clay Tablets in Nietzsche's Cave is a masterful, poetic work—and as momentousfor the reception of Arabic poetry in English as was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls for theologians and anthropologists. These "clay tablets"—excavatedostensibly 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