A Note from the Poetry Editor
A Note from the Poetry Editor Poets must speak of their time, Czeslaw Milosz often told his students. And so they, in very different ways, do. Karim Fawzi, in a poem dated June 9th, 2003, speaks of berries and Baghdad, and of beating his present existence "with the cane of departure," while Valzhyna Mort tells us about the fate of her generation in post-Soviet (but still totalitarian) Belarus. As you will browse through the pages of this special "all poetry" issue of Words Without Borders you will discover many images, details, the tiniest moments tied together by emotion, wonder, rhythm. Th...
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