"Fady Joudah on Images From Gaza"
"And this man burning alive, the fire starting at his feet and moving cephalad—the drama of a head spared to the last, as if the fire was doing us a favor, granting us the memory we desire for when the genocidaires’ dream finally ended them. A final solution boomerangs as a version of a pyrrhic victory with no victor. Burning alive, the man had no name, only titles of what he was and was not to us. A Palestinian in Gaza. Age unknown."
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What Sparks Poetry: Aaron McCollough on "Not at Duino”
"I am increasingly persuaded that American Christianity’s embrace of Donald Trump is simply the latest expression of a terrific counter-scandal, effectively another, much more gradual transvaluation of values, whereby the dominant American secular and religious visions have aligned themselves with a cult of progress, the technocratic human image for which power can only mean domination, exploitation, and mastery. The key joke of this era is the one where the man puts a gun to his head, and when his wife starts laughing says to her, 'What’s so funny? You’re next!'" |
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