But teach me a new word Some poetry makes you think. Some poetry makes you yearn or fret or feel. Nizar Qabbani's poetry will make you swoon. I fall over his lines like a chez lounge. Nizar Qabbani was born in Damascus, Syria, on March 21, 1923. During the 75 years of his life, he managed to become the most beloved poet of the Arab world. He was fiercely nationalist, fiercely feminist and passionate for passion itself.
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Jennifer Amell"It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on." |