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| James Frid |
Squabbles
The tree’s more lovely when it’s naked,
seeing through it is more joyful.
Through it, I can watch the sky
wilting on bare boughs.
Like a little child
I can lift the sky up, near or far.
You grown-ups, older people,
you don't know
how we shake each other
like a squabble
.between nothingness and being
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| Bilal Al Masri |
Bilal Al Masri is active in the Lebanese literary community and known throughout the Arab world. He has published four poetry collections. He has written three novels and two plays as well as children’s stories, which were translated into English in Canada. Selected poems have appeared in six anthologies, including English and Polish, and some of his poems have been translated into French. He has received four different awards, including the “Zheng Nian Cup” national prize in China in 2023. His most recent poetry collection is Crushing His Head with the Stone of Memory, part of Ishraqat – a series on Arab Poetic Voices curated by the iconic Syrian poet Adonis. Bilal and his wife, Sonia Essa (of Palestinian heritage), have two children.
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