Rimbaud and Verlaine in the Panthéon? ‘A completely sentimental and macabre idea’
An interview with Kristin Ross and Denis Saint-Amand, decrying the call to place the two rebel poets into the France's national memorial.
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On the Uses of Sorrow
Shigraf Zahbi remembers the great Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, on the anniversary of his death.
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Mahmoud Darwish: Mural
"Tell me the name of your wound and I’ll tell you the road/where we’ll lose ourselves twice!"
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was one of the greatest writers of the past half-century. In this extract from his long poem Mural, Darwish draws on themes of loss and longing for this beautiful meditation on exile.
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The Beginning of the End
An excerpt from Angelo Quatttrocchi's lyrical eyewitness account of May 1968 in Paris.
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Movie (1934)
A 1934 poem by Muriel Rukeyser, collected in Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema.
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Two Poems by Heriberto Yépez
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Yépezis at the forefront of a generation of writers who are questioning notions of fluidity and synthesis, a generation that has seen those same categories veil the advent of global neoliberalism," Edgar Garcia has written. -
not asking for freedom—but free: Ericka Huggins' poems from prison
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No Tears for the Roses
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The poetry of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)
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"Ye are many–they are few"
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An Empty Vessel
