“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” wrote Adorno in 1949. Yahia Lababidi’s new volume—the poet’s eleventh—Palestine Wail, affirms how “during a genocide, most words lose their meaning,” they become uneasy, while tears and kindness speak more accurately.

On a certain level, then, violence affects language fundamentally, as Adorno intuited. The genocide of the Palestinian people, carried out by the Israeli army since 2023, has indeed put language to shame.'

https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/november/palestine-wail-yahia-lababidi

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Anyone looking at any new reading challenges for next year? Inquiring minds want to know.

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