On what would have been his 80th birthday, we reflect on the late Palestinian poet’s extraordinarily abundant, deeply humane and brilliantly kaleidoscopic work
Sounds like a wonderful poet, in both what he wrote and read.
one people now have two states, two prisons who don’t greet each other. We are victims dressed in executioners’ clothing
Whenever they find a reality that doesn’t suit them
they alter it with a bulldozer
When the sky appears ashen
and I see a rose that has suddenly burst
out of a crack in a wall I don’t say:
The sky is ashen!
I extend my study of the rose
and say to it: What a day!
Sounds like a wonderful poet, in both what he wrote and read.