Poetry in the face of history: Letter to an Israeli soldier | MadaMasr

Under what conditions could a confrontation between poetry and history yield to the defeat of history? And what is it in poetry that could defeat history? Is it the simple act of bearing witness? The deep, sharp gaze? The pressing quest to embody experience? Or is it the desperate attempt at making meaning? We don’t know. All we know is that we received, read, and translated poetry as the Israeli assault on Gaza, and now in Lebanon next door, rages on.
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