Poetry is dead vs the death penalty for poetry?
[ by Charles Cameron — current affairs, target practice, and incarnation ]
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Palestinian poet and painter Ahraf Fayadh is currently under a death sentence in Saudi Arabia.
It appears important to recognize the full human significance of one’s target
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Flaubert apparently pronounced poetry dead in his posthumous opus, Bouvard et Pécuchet, 1881, and even Newsweek had noted the fact — “filed under: News” — by 2003. Neither Flaubert nor Newsweek, however, was reckoning on the long-standing Arab enthusiasm for poetry, nicely illustrated to this day by the seriousness with which the authorities treat their poets.
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Oh..
and while we’re on the subject of targeting..
it may also be wise to recognize the full divine significance of one’s target.
