An
Imagined Letter
For
Comrade Xi Jinping
in
(9)
Poems
on Reading Liu Xia’s
‘Empty Chairs’
56 pages
"...And, as for Liu Xia’s Empty Chairs, (2015) finally maybe it is poetry that
reaches out to us to reach inside to that place where this future we imagine
already exists, as a seed, as a possibility, a future born out of a past that
leaves us with the ache of – with a longing for - something that could have –
but still did not – exist. " (7 april – 21, july, 2022)
....on Reading Liu Xia’s ‘Empty Chairs’
美国之音海彦拍摄, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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ONLY IN ROJAVA
photographs
from kobanê
by
orsola casagrande
“We have work to do”. ‘Only in Rojava’, for the people of Rojava
Global Rights - 25 January 2019 -Text by Orsola Casagrande
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THESES
on [the Philosophy
of] HISTORY
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Theses on (the Philosophy of) History (poem) – downloadable E-Book
“The complete uncertainty about what the next day and even
the next hour will bring has dominated my existence for many weeks. I am condemned to read every newspaper (they
now come out on a single sheet of paper) like a summons that has been served on
me and to detect in every radio broadcast the voice of the messenger of bad
tidings.”
(Walter Benjamin, to Theodore W. Adorno, Lourdes, August 2, 1940, in Scholem & Adorno, The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, University of Chicago Press, 1994, Page 638)
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On a Winter's Day
(at War)
On A Winter's Day (at War)
for the people (and refugees)
of Afrin Region,
the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria - Rojava (January, 2018)
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“Let Erdoğan come and look at the children he has killed. We will stay in our land till the last
drop of blood.”
Mustafa Hesen, Co-president of Afrin Canton
https://www.globalrights.info/2018/01/turkey-not-condemned-enough-for-rojava-invasion/
"Children of the world,
if Spain falls - I mean, it's just a thought-
...if mother
Spain falls - I mean, it's just a thoughtgo
out, children of the world, go look for her!...
(Spain, Take this Cup from Me)
Cesar Vallejo, October 1937
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Selected Poems by Liu Xia; Translated from the Chinese by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern; Introduction by Liao Yiwu; Foreword by Herta Müller
"Empty Chairs presents the poetry of Liu Xia for the first time freely in both English translation and in the Chinese original. Selected from thirty years of her work, and including some of her haunting photography, this book creates a portrait of a life lived under duress, a voice in danger of being silenced, and a spirit that is shaken but so far indomitable. Liu Xia's poems are potent, acute moments of inquiry that peel back to expose the fraught complexity of an interior world. They are felt and insightful, colored through with political constraints even as they seep beyond those constraints and toward love."
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/empty-chairs
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