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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/ruins-and-other-poems-by-samer-abu-
 hawwash-translating-palestinian-poetry-in-a-time-of-genocide-3/
SUMMARY:Ruins and Other Poems by Samer Abu Hawwash: Translating Palestinian
  Poetry in a Time of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:FBH 401\n\nIn these poems\, Samer Abu Hawwash stands upon ancie
 nt and modern ruins\, engaging with the archetypal Arabic qasida and its e
 choes in the present\, set against a backdrop of exile\, displacement\, an
 d genocide.\n\nThe site of the ruin\, the journey\, and the return home ar
 e the three movements of the archetypal Arabic form with which Samer conte
 nds in his book-length poem. Writing in and from the moment of crisis\, th
 e poet keeps returning to ruins\, forfeiting the journey and the hope of r
 eturn and resolution\, rearranging the elements of poetry in the Arabic tr
 adition in search of closure or consolation—in a gesture\, a shadow\, a 
 memory\, an object. The five poems that follow “Ruins” in this book ro
 ot themselves in monumental loss. When “it no longer matters if anyone l
 oves us” and “we will lose this war\,” nothing remains but the poem\
 , the witness\, the signpost in the wasteland of history.
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CATEGORIES:Arab American,Community,Discussion
LOCATION:Fisher - Bennett Hall\, 3340 Walnut Street \, Philadelphia\, PA\, 
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