Great Regulars: "In the beginning

were the words.
After that I heard the boom."

Where did that come from? "Every time something happens like an explosion or suicide bombers," she [Agi Mishol] says, "when we watch television, somebody, a witness, always says, 'and then I heard the boom.' Being a poet, I want to 'taste' this sentence. I must put it in a poem."

from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Poetry of the Middle East: With Agi Mishol in the Farmlands South of Tel Aviv: "And Then I Heard the Boom"

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