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...Afghan filmmaker and novelist Atiq Rahimi spoke about transnational identity and cultural revolution yesterday in a Humanities Center presentation called “From Political Exile to Poetic Wandering...
...interested in how he has turned his political exile into what he calls poetic nomadism, how he moves between countries, languages, culture and media,” said Kirkland House Master Verena Conley, one of the seminar leaders and a long-term visiting professor of romance languages and literatures...
...comforting. In the same poem, he writes, “It occurred to me I’ve read enough; at my age all I’m doing is confirming my sadness.” Reading, after all, brings him not only to the study of the poetic voices that influence him, but also to the confrontation of political issues that crop up throughout his work, from Roe v. Wade to the war in Iraq...
...engagement and discouragement with contemporary affairs, are nevertheless not the most compelling ones in his collection. Rather, the most riveting moments in “Wait” come from Williams’ autobiographical ruminations, which give his reader glimpses of the past out of which this careful, quiet poetic personality has evolved. Though it is hard to imagine this wise voice as a wayward student, in one poem, Williams disparagingly describes the self of his school days: “I was an indifferent student; I fidgeted, / daydreamed, didn’t do my homework, didn?...
...film is] a sometimes poetic, at other times chilling rendering of the teen psyche—a risky and admirable decision,” she said. “[Wesman] reaches beyond normal or habitual story-telling...