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Painting by Biagio Fortini, Italy<\/p>\n
I talk ceaselessly about the subtle difference<\/p>\n between women and trees, about stamp I have never seen in any passport.<\/p>\n I ask: ladies and gentlemen, and where am I? The assembly applauds.<\/p>\n Three extra minutes, three minutes of freedom I shake their hands, one by one, bow deeply …<\/p>\n and continue my journey to another<\/p>\n country where I speak about the difference Mahmoud Darwish<\/strong>, Palestine, 1941-2008<\/p>\n Translation: Benaissa Bouhmala-Germain Droogenbroodt Painting by Biagio Fortini, Italy<\/p>\n \n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Painting by Biagio Fortini, Italy I talk ceaselessly I talk ceaselessly about the subtle difference between women and trees, about the magic of the earth, about a country whose stamp I have never seen in any passport. I ask: ladies and gentlemen, is the earth of humans for all humans, as you claim? Where then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7022,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions\/7022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>I talk ceaselessly<\/p>\n
\nthe magic of the earth, about a country whose<\/p>\n
\nis the earth of humans for all humans,
\nas you claim? Where then is my little hut<\/p>\n
\nand recognition… the assembly has approved
\nour return, just as all chickens and
\nall horses return to a dream of stone.<\/p>\n
\nbetween a bubble and the rain and ask:
\ndear ladies and gentlemen,
\nis the earth of humans for all humans?<\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/strong>
\nfrom \u201cLess roses<\/em><\/strong>\u201d, POINT Editions & Boekenplan 2009<\/p>\n