Butler Adorn’od
I followed the Judith Butler debate in the German newspapers these past 6 weeks or so, but didn’t post on it. The following article from Muzzlewatch however is worth calling attention to as it is a...
Category: Israel
Avnery on Arafat
Uri Avnery July 7, 2012 Poisoning Arafat FOR ME, there was no surprise. From the very first day, I was convinced that Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by Ariel Sharon. I even wrote about...
Alice Walker’s position on Israeli Boycott
This just in via the Electronic Intifada: JTA and Haaretz distort Alice Walker’s position on boycott of Israeli publisher Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 06/19/2012 – 11:31 Alice Walker speaks in the occupied West Bank...
Avnery on the First War in Lebanon
Uri Avnery June 9, 2012 The War of Lies THIRTY YEARS ago this week, the Israeli army crossed into Lebanon and started the most stupid war in Israel’s history. It lasted for 18 years....
Uri Avnery: A Putsch Against War
Avnery’s weekly column for May 5, 2012: A Putsch Against War GENERALS AND secret police chiefs get together for an attack on the politicians. In some countries, they arrest the president, occupy government offices...
Uri Avnery on Günther Grass
As far as poems go, “Was gesagt werden muss / What needs to be said” is a pretty second-rate exercise, & its political analysis is to a good extent inaccurate, but the mass of hysterical...
PEN Presses for Visa for Palestinian Poet
from th PEN Advocacy pages: April 4, 2012 | Larry Siems Yesterday, we got word through our Translation Committee that Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan , whose collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me is being released by Yale University Press this...
David Grossman on the Fate of Omar Abu Jariban
Alan Gilbert posted on this Haaretz article by David Grossman here. It seems worthwhile reposting this during the week of Benjamin Netanyahu visit to D.C., warmongering re Iran among the GOP freak show, the recent AIPAC...
Israeli Poet Almog Behar on his Mashreqi Roots
More from the sickbed — where cut-and-paste is the best I can do — this piece from an unlikely source, The Jerusalem Post: The Resurgent Mizrahi Voice 01/04/2012 18:26 By KAMOUN BEN-SHIMON Poet...
Drone Economy for NYC?
This forwarded by friend John Maas, from the Beirut-based paper Al Akhbar English: New York to Host Israel’s Top Drone Lab On December 19, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the establishment of a 2...
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux