Meanwhile, the disgruntled "natives" of the West remain empty-handed and keep baying for blood, stuck on the caboose of the train, like Bob Dylan used to sing. Despair will always be a merchandize so long as we refuse to confront these lies head-on.
Fear knows no borders, and the terminology of hate has seeped into every aspect of life. - Andre Naffis-Sahely
Fear knows no borders, and the terminology of hate has seeped into every aspect of life.
- Andre Naffis-Sahely
Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground. - Andre Naffis-Sahely
Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.
I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of … - Andre Naffis-Sahely
I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of …
I'm mostly surprised by the fact he's still alive; given that people have been trying to silence him for almost fifty years, he really shouldn't be. … - Andre Naffis-Sahely
I'm mostly surprised by the fact he's still alive; given that people have been trying to silence him for almost fifty years, he really shouldn't be. …
To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no c… - Andre Naffis-Sahely
To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no c…
Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their e… - Andre Naffis-Sahely
Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their e…
Abdellatif [Laâbi] was wildly popular with his students and it wasn't difficult to see why: like them, he knew that average Moroccans were hungry, jo… - Andre Naffis-Sahely
Abdellatif [Laâbi] was wildly popular with his students and it wasn't difficult to see why: like them, he knew that average Moroccans were hungry, jo…
I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest." I know they're trying to be clever, but they… - Andre Naffis-Sahely
I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest." I know they're trying to be clever, but they…
Translators who choose to work on canonized writers can usually lean on an extensive critical apparatus around either the author or the book in quest… - Andre Naffis-Sahely
Translators who choose to work on canonized writers can usually lean on an extensive critical apparatus around either the author or the book in quest…
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