To the Language of Doves
Darwish’s identity (and the Palestinian identity) has been, at least partly, developed in exile. Darwish writes: “I am absence./ The heavenly and the expelled.” Here he speaks not only for…
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Matthew Siegel
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Matthew Siegel is a poet and essayist from New York. Some forthcoming and recent work can be found in Gigantic Sequins, Indiana Review, The Lumberyard, Lo-Ball, and Saw Mill Online. He is a 2009-2011 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.
A Field Unfenced: Remembering Craig Arnold
We were sitting in an unfamiliar building on campus, my student Natalie and I, talking about the poet we were reading for that week, Craig Arnold.