Ecclesiastes
by Khaled Mattawa • from Tocqueville • New Issues Poetry & Prose
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Khaled MattawaKhaled Mattawa is the author of three previous books
of poetry and has translated eight volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry.
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Tocqueville"Part personal lyric, part jeremiad, part shooting script, and part troubled homage to the great wry chronicler of American society evoked in the book's title." (David Wojahn)
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"A lot of modern art is very autistic. There is this arbitrary law that you're not supposed to be sentimental or have any feelings. What the bloody hell is that but autism, pretending to be some kind of automaton? I came across a wonderful phrase recently. Some fellow writing against the Conservative Party of Canada, parodying their attitudes, described the conservative image of Harvard as 'the great ice-palace of the modern elite'—where it's all intellect and no feelings allowed."
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