A spider thread / fastens your heart / to the book of flesh.
Saturday Events: ‘A Poem in Arabic, Not an Arabic Poem’
Dartmouth College's open Middle Eastern literature lecture series starts on Wednesday, January 27, with a talk by Princeton's Lara Harb.
‘All Our Translations Are Prose Poems’: A Talk with Huda Fakhreddine
"I think poetry transcends time. A genuinely poetic approach to the study of poetry is one that breaks itself from historicism."
Four Poems by Sargon Boulus Prize-winning Emad Abu Saleh
Happily, Huda Fakhreddine here shares four poems she translated as part of her forthcoming The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (March 2021).
‘A Street in the Pandemic’ & Other Poems by Jawdat Fakhreddine
"Perhaps, after this pandemic passes,/ I will keep the rituals I have acquired in its course / because I've learned to hold on- more than ever before -/ to time,/ to examine it meticulously/ and to find life, clenched and caught,/ in its fleeting moments."
