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Mourid Barghouti Selected Poems
"One
of its charming miracles is that through its form, poetry can resist the content
of authoritarian discourse. By resorting to understatement , concrete and
physical language, a poet contends against abstraction, generalization,
hyperbole and the heroic language of hot-headed generals and bogus lovers
alike....Poetry remains one of the astonishing forms in our hands to resist
obscurantism and silence. And since we cannot wash the polluted words of hatred
the same way we wash greasy dishes with soap and hot water, we the poets of the
world, continue to write our poems to restore the respect of meaning and to give
meaning to our existence."
-Mourid Barghouti
(Originally
published in New Internationalist # 359 -August 2003)
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