BOOKS
To Love a Palestinian Woman, by Ehab Lotayef, TSAR Publications
by Leila Marshy
25.07.2010
Poetry, like love, cheapens when not deeply true or almost perfect. Embracing the unloved lover is a small torture, an excruciating ennui. Similarly painful is cracking open a book of poetry that doesn’t immediately slay you. Arguably the worst reaction one can have to that person beside you, to that poem on the page, is [...]
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BOOKS
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, by Adina Hoffman, Yale University Press
by Leila Marshy
30.05.2010
Let’s play word association. I say Palestinian, what do you say? Terrorist? Suicide bomber? Anti-Semite? For Adina Hoffman, an American Jew living in Jerusalem, the word that came into her head was Poet.
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