“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 - it's a "woman's tendency to depression and grief." It's not a human, universal tackling of something that exists in all of us. It's suddenly a "woman issue."” WritingTryingHumansSufferingGriefIssuesPoetUniversalBoringMeaningfulTendenciesTackling Author: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 with rare luminosity. One feels echoes of Oppen's succinct tenderness in the depiction of the numerous characters of this work. Without other, there is no self. And that other is the stranger who must be loved. Concordance is, after all, a wedding poem-leaves and pages in search of a certain passage toward harmony.” FeelsHumansSelfCharacterSpiritCertainPagesHarmonyStrangerPassagesFragileTendernessPalestinianEchoesEpicPalestineHuman SpiritPhilipDepictionIndomitableEpic Poems Author:Fady Joudah