Exhausted on the Cross Frank Keizer the poems inhabit an incongruous

the poems inhabit an incongruous space between everyday distractions and intimate

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

‘Het gezochte woord lijkt altijd groter dan het woord / dat je ten slotte vindt: er paste

Eva Meijer vangt wat ze ziet in een nieuwe vorm voor deze tijd

geboren in het Saksische Burgstädt

Exhausted on the Cross Frank Keizer the poems inhabit an incongruousNajwan Darwish We drag histories behind us, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, here where theres neither land nor sky. In pared down lines, brilliantly translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu Zeid, Darwish records what Ral Zurita describes as something immemorial, almost unspeakablea poetry driven by a moral imperative to be a colossal record of violence and, at the same time, the no less colossal record of