Great Regulars: [Adina] Hoffman rightly holds that "the West

remains, in large part, oblivious to the particulars of the Palestinian saga." Moreover, Palestinian writers are too often "judged not as individual artists but as spokesmen for a cause." For Hoffman, who with Peter Cole edits and runs the Ibis Editions publishing house out of Jerusalem, Ali's work offers an avenue of entrance into the larger Palestinian milieu in part because his work resists such reductionist, dismissive readings.

from Powells: Review-A-Day: A Poet in Time and Place

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Here is [Stephen] Mitchell's final stanza of "Archaic Torso," which recalls an ancient statue of the titular god, missing its arms, legs and head. The statue

would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

Here is [Edward] Snow's final stanza, in which the statue's life would:

. . . not break from all its contours
like a star: for there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

from Powells: Review-A-Day: There Is No Place That Does Not See You

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