Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

- Andre Naffis-Sahely

Fear knows no borders, and the terminology of hate has seeped into every aspect of life.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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…

- 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…

- 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. …

- Andre Naffis-Sahely