Iraqi Writer Fadhil al-Azzawi: A Modernizer of Poetic Forms
"Al-Azzawi’s ghost still haunts the notebooks of our poets. For the generations that did not get to know him personally, he will remain forever like the father gone off to some distant, unknown land. Exactly like Iraq—especially Kirkuk—he possesses multiple identities."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sandra Lim on the Poem as Self-Interrogation
"I don’t read this poem and think of the practical relevance or irrelevance of poetry, but I do get the sense of being both cursed and culpable from the way Vallejo renders conscious (and consciousness of) suffering. It may seem strange to say that the poem feels like a chance to notice when it expresses so much restless melancholy, but the speaker’s honesty with his doubts keeps his sense of compassion from hardening into self-congratulation." |
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