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The Book of Possibilities

Poetry Off the Shelf

CHAPTER

The Dream of the Palm

I was hoping if we could read one or maybe two of these really old, old poems. I'd been reading through your anthology, The Dream of the Palm. So it's all translations from this medieval Andalusia,. Where Arabs and Christians and Jews all live together in a cross-pollinated world. Can you tell me a little bit about the world that he was from, about him and about his world?

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