For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them … - Fady Joudah

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The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.

Fady Joudah

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

Activism, Form, Gives, Giving, Poetry, Word

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I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were initially stamped on a person. I don't have a problem with any of my "hyphenated" biography - I don't have any problem with that at all. The world would be a better place if our thread of hyphenation were truly embraced beyond mere naming and category.

Against, Culture, Initially, Labels, Stamped, Would Be

Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting

Fists, Fits, Forget, Forgetting, Memories, Shrinks

A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare luminosity. One feels echoes of Oppen's succinct tenderness in the depiction of the numerous characters of this work. Without other, there is no self. And that other is the stranger who must be loved. Concordance is, after all, a wedding poem-leaves and pages in search of a certain passage toward harmony.

Character, Concordance, Echoes, Epic, Feels, Fragile

Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.

America, Dominant, Enterprise, Reflection, Thinking

What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering - it's a "woman's tendency to depression and grief. " It's not a human, universal tackling of something that exists in all of us. It's suddenly a "woman issue. "

Grief, Issue, Meaningful, Nothing, Tendency, Writing

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