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Writing is my way of making other chances.” -Anne Tyler I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough” -Joy Williams
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His wife was killed in Beirut in 1982 by a bomb set off by pro-Iranian guerillas during the Lebanese civil war. "What is the difference between me and the sky?" He wrote many love poems, like "My Lover Asks Me": He went to law school and then became a diplomat, serving in Cairo, Istanbul, Beirut, Madrid, London, and China. Its erotic poems created a controversy in conservative Syrian society. He published his first book of poetry, The Brunette Told Me (1944), when he was 19 years old.
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I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry." He said: "Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set it free. After that, he devoted his writing to championing romantic love and urging women to break the constraining bonds of the traditional roles Arab society set out for them. When Nizar Qabbani was 15, his older sister committed suicide rather than marry a man she did not love. His father owned a chocolate factory, and he gave money to support the resistance of Syrian guerillas, so he was put in prison on various occasions. It's the birthday of Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, ( books by this author) born in Damascus (1923). "Poem on a Line by Anne Sexton, 'We are All Writing God's Poem'" by Barbara Crooker, from Line Dance. The moon spills its milk on the black tabletop Lavender, thistle, a box of spilled crayons. In the open window, while the sky turns red violet, Put one foot after the other, open the window,Īnd disappear. In the morning, knowing what we do? But we do, Like the one that sold jeans that really fitĪnd where do we fit in? How can we get up Relationships, stores going out of business, Sixty, I pass a tractor trailer called Glory Bound, With a loud shout, redbud trees, their gaudy I've driven into spring, as the woods revive Think, it's stranger than we can think." I think Say, "The universe is not only stranger than we The journey of a thousand milesīegins with a single step. Today, the sky's the soft blue of a work shirt washedĪ thousand times.