News at Eleven: I didn't set out to find a Representative Palestinian Poet

to write about: I was drawn to Taha [Muhammad Ali] as Taha at first, and the rest of it--the whole history of his village, the region, Palestinian literature--followed. There are, clearly, others who are much more famous and "central." But this was in its way also a kind of billiards: by writing about Taha, a poet who both does and doesn't represent the major strands in Palestinian literature, I was able to write about many others as well. [--Adina Hoffman]

from Bookslut: An Interview with Adina Hoffman

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