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Will Harris

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    ll always be grateful to Helena Nelson, my first editor, for having faith in my work when I didn’t.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Granta for their support – especially to Eleanor Chandler for her owl-eyed suggestions.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    This book arose out of innumerable conversations and encounters. There are some people named in the poems (some names have been changed), but many others float lovingly in the background. I hope they know who they are and what they mean to me.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    These poems are spoken in memory of those who can’t hear them:
    Tjandra Sari, aka Mak (1931–2018)
    Swadaya Sitiabudi (1923–1979)
    John P. Harris (1923–2003)
    Emy van der Spek (1929–2002)
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    and I asked if everything was OK. Yes,
    everything’s OK, you said, suddenly embarrassed, but wait,
    why am I telling you this
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    and need a voice capacious enough to be both me and not-me,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    I reject the possibility of narrating any life other than my own
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    I feel it still. But not with
    guilt. Reverberating in
    me. My rickety city.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    My freight train. My empty din.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    No jokes today please.
    See me slumped against the door.
    Up to my knees.
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