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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

1219: from "Elegy for the Times" by Adonis, translated by Robyn Creswell

Oct 17, 2024
06:08

Today’s poem is from "Elegy for the Times" by Adonis, translated by Robyn Creswell. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.


In this episode, Major writes… “For stateless people, writing poems, taking pictures, composing songs is precarious, but making art happens, nonetheless. Often, it is a counter insistence of one’s presence on earth. Today’s poem is a humanizing statement of profound sorrow borne of conflict and exile.”


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