Month: September 2024

What I’m re-reading:

I was out sinking in the sea, thinking of Carthage, / the night making sense of someone’s feast / of blasted blocks, rebar spiking signals where missiles / fell, so much glass under arches / smashed. [“South Beirut”]

ALIEN CORRESPONDENT by Antony Di Nardo (Brick Books, 2010)

Earlier this summer, Antony said, “I am a poet of place.” He is also a poet of witness. Antony was living and teaching in Beirut, Lebanon, during the summer war of 2006 and he was still there in May 2008 during the three-day barrage of “shells and grenades.” The collection is insightful, balanced, and heartfelt and gives us an inside view of the city’s beauty, its people, and also the brutality of war without romanticizing or moralizing. Alien Correspondent is as relevant now in 2024 as it was in 2010. I heartily recommend the poetry collection to you.

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