Tuesday, January 19, 2010

News at Eleven: At this point, the same question can be posed

about current realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How can one write about the situation without cheapening the death and suffering that goes on there, to write without marring the intent with political agendas, sophistry, subjectivism?

Welsh-Israeli poet Jasmine Donahaye takes the Middle-Eastern conflict as the subject of her poetry collection "Self-Portrait as Ruth" and fulfills Adorno's dictum in a wholly unexpected way. She writes poetry that is itself barbaric--sophisticated, complex, informed, yet at its core, barbaric.

from Forward: Orgies on the Green Line: The Poetry of Jasmine Donahaye

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