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“I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.”

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Erykah Badu, born on February 26, 1971, is an American singer-songwriter known for her unique musical style and emotive voice. She is regarded as one of the key figures in R&B music of the 1990s. more

“In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to. It's a modern Inferno, where Lowell plays both Dante and Virgil, guiding us through dozens of illuminating, bitter episodes from human history, all the while managing to hold a mirror to our confused hominid face as it squints at eternity and fails to grasp any of it.”

Humans Play Faces Failing Modern Projects Eternity Mirrors Brilliant Bitter Confused Dozen Episodes Tire Flawed Human History Inferno Illuminating Hominids

Author: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 the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it.”

World Ideas Wealth United Middle Intelligent Towns Library Oil Southern Arabia Fourteen Public Library Emirates

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.”

Stories Land My Family Towns Poetry Is Reefs Promised Land Personal History

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.”

Enough Memories My Own

Author: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're not.”

Knows Trying I Can Walks Clever Forests Hawks

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

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

Real Middle Real Life Pulse Middle Ground

Author: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 question, especially in the case of writers like [Honore] Balzac and [Emil] Zola.”

Book Cases Critical Translators Balzac Zola

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

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