Word: hikmet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Swados finds the simplest statement of her theme in two works of Nazim Hikmet. "Things I Didn't Know I Loved" opens Cantata, celebrating an adult re-awakening to the fundamental miracle of life bursting with questions for animals and astronauts alike. "On Living" ends the show with a return to general statements on existence: "Living must be your whole occupation... Plant olives at seventy and not for your children... We must live as if one never dies...
Swados calls upon Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, Frank O'Hara, and others, including herself, to provide the words that fall in between the two Hikmet pieces. Often these sources point out the manner in which language not only expresses but also defines the way we treat each other...
...Mazuz Masri, 70, to Jerusalem by helicopter, threatened retribution if the elections did not take place, and ordered in additional troops to underline his warning and stifle the fedayeen. He also arrested the mayor's cousin-Hikmet Masri, a former speaker of the Jordanian Parliament-for suspected contacts with the guerrillas. At Dayan's order, Israeli soldiers refused to allow commercial traffic from Nablus to cross the Damiya Bridge over the Jordan River. That was a stunning blow to many merchants, who, despite the occupation, have been able to maintain prosperous traditional markets under the open-bridges policy...