“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 I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.” ThinkingWorldAmericaSpiritCultureViewsConsciousnessReflectionStructureCriticalCorporateEnterpriseCapitalistDominantPortalMirroringAmerican Spirit 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
