11 Oct 2014

Only poetry knows how to pair itself to this space.

 "I fall down in order to stay faithful to
the light, in order to make the world ambiguous, fascinating, changeable, dangerous, in
order to announce the steps beyond.
     The blood of the gods is still fresh on my clothes."


Adunis, or Ali Ahmad Said Esber is a translator, editor, theorist and renowned poet imprisoned in Syria in the 50s for his beliefs, who left to live in Lebanon.

"The cities dissolve, and the earth is a cart loaded with dust
Only poetry knows how to pair itself to this space."