We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English wit… - Fady Joudah
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English wit…
- Fady Joudah
What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering… - Fady Joudah
What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering…
Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But… - Fady Joudah
Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But…
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash. - Fady Joudah
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall b… - Fady Joudah
We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall b…
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why… - Fady Joudah
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why…
Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance. - Fady Joudah
Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.
I have a problem with the fact that when it's brought up, it's not really discussed. It's all that's brought up. So-and-so is an Arab American or a P… - Fady Joudah
I have a problem with the fact that when it's brought up, it's not really discussed. It's all that's brought up. So-and-so is an Arab American or a P…
We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author w… - Fady Joudah
We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author w…
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