Arts & Cultural Critique
Israel/Gaza
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“You want me to choose…”
Tikkun (https://www.tikkun.org/author/internadmin/)
“…They demand that we condemn/And if we do not, they may say we are complicit…”
“…Each verse of my poem is divided by rockets, shrill alarms/that rise and fall…”
Avoid…Don’t belabor…don’t reference…don’t even imagine…
“A messenger might say, leave this place. / Don’t look back…”
A poem by Martín Espada, winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, for his book, Floaters.
Memorial by Hungarian sculptor, Gyula Pauer, in Budapest, to Jews shot into the Danube, 1944-1945. Photo by Erik Klein.
At a border-crossing between Eastern and Western Europe, a Russian officer yells, “Bystryy! Faster!”