Faiz Ahmad
A sky
replaces
the sky

almost imperceptibly

until we turn
our heads around

face-to-face with
the unholy axe

that chopped our
seeing in two:

the-world and
a-world
from the journal DENVER QUARTERLY
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"The Poem Makes the Mind Possible"

Dan Beachy-Quick & Srikanth Reddy discuss poetry, history and translation. "It is as if sometimes I can feel that the poem I’ve written is a repetition of a poem already existent, just lost—to me, to us, to time. Then writing becomes a radical form of recovery, of undoing a harm not even known as a harm. And the only access we have to the original, is by the poem that is a replica of what we can see in no other way."

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Michael Heller on “Bandelette de Torah”


"When I first saw the bandelette in the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, in Paris’s Marais district, I immediately experienced one of those Rilkean “bursts,” for here was an object, that in its ornate yet near-transparent being, invoked so much of the social, cultural and historic struggles of the Jews which are writ large across and infuse the whole of Western culture from earliest times through the rise of Christianity and the Church fathers, on up to the Shoah."
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