Prathna Lor

Prathna Lor is a doctoral student of English at the University of Toronto.

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Building sex

'The lip of a paragraph'

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Sherry Bernstein: Funeral Program

Charles Bernstein

Riverside Memorial Chapel, New York, 11am, Nov. 2, 2018
Charles Bernstein, officiating

Sherry Bernstein (Feb. 2, 1921–Oct. 27, 2017): obituary (Jacket2, October 28, 2018)

The language of poetry: not a body but a wound

Huda Fakhreddine

A collage by Adunis (image from alhayat.com)

This poem (and every reading of it) is an ongoing exposure, opening up, and challenging of our expectations of poetry in Arabic. After having dislodged Arabic poetry from its rootedness in verse (meter and rhyme) in previous experiments, especially in his 1964 collection The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene, Adunis here drastically expands the limits of the poem.

The earth was not a body it was a wound

How is it possible to travel between body and wound?

How is it possible to settle?

The wound began to transform into parents and the question to turn into space

Come out into the space, Child.

This is the opening of Adunis’s monumental prose poem Singluar in Plural Form&n