A Language for Extinction: Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds
And if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
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...moreThese poems present a challenge to the typically imposed strictures of ownership, narrative, and solution.
...moreBarbara Berman reviews seven poetry collections to celebrate National Poetry Month.
...moreEach poem opens a window into cities and vocabularies of exile.
...moreThese poems, poised at the intersections of the material, the metaphorical, and the spiritual, fold into and out of one another as their boundaries dissolve with question after question.
...moreBen Ehrenreich, author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, discusses oppression, objectivity in journalism, and millennial politics.
...moreAnyone writing a poem knows that you first open yourself and then a poem builds from what you yield. As a poet, you are the carrier of life.
...moreDarwish’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 himself, but for his people.
...moreToday’s poem is a translation of a poem by the late Mahmoud Darwish by Fady Joudah. It appears in the collection If I Were Another. Truth Has Two Faces and the Snow Is Black Truth has two faces and the snow is black over our city. We are no longer capable of despairing more than […]
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