Carolyn Forché Reads Mahmoud Darwish
Summary
Poet Carolyn Forché discusses Mahmoud Darwish’s “The Owl Is Night,” exploring its themes of Palestinian exile, the weight of history, and the paradox of presence within absence. She then reads her own poem “The Museum of Stones,” inspired by a friend’s collection of labeled rocks, which transforms mundane objects into a meditation on global history and sacred memory. Forché also reflects on her new book, *Otherwhere*, and the evolving role of poetry as a form of witness in times of global crisis.
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