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Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
we keep going back to the front lines, because we know that with every reader who pauses over a poem, every struggling student who overhears one line and remembers it and recites it to a colleague, every time we make someone's heart go from indifferent to sad or grateful, we are taking a step in the right direction. We can't measure it, but we believe it. [by Yehuda Amichai] Memorial Day for the War...
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I'll think of something later (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
...it'll be a mighty squeeze in the cleft which Zechariah prophesied will open up in Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. Which is why the Jewish graves are so hugger-mugger on the slopes, offering instant fast track to resurrection for Robert Maxwell, of all people, among others. If I've collated correctly, the city's glorious Dome of the Rock, never to be seen at close quarters by the majority of Israelis,...
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Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
highly of the great Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. But he was careful to point out that the conflict in Palestine was a struggle "between two memories" and that Amichai would only admit the existence of one. Darwish insisted that each side tell its narrative freely so that a dialogue would result. In Darwish's last years he let these wide cultural interests emerge in his poetry. He saw Palestine...
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