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Date:
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March 1, 2001 |
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Location:
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The Unitarian Center |
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Length:
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30 minutes |
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Tape Quality:
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good |
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Collection:
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The American Poetry Archives |
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Ethnicity:
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Language:
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English |
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Use Policy:
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available |
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Content:
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In addition to his poetry—his collections include the
cairo notebooks and A Masque in the Form of a Cento—and his critical writings,
Ammiel Alcalay is a prolific translator from Serbo-Croatian, Hebrew, Arabic,
and Spanish. Here he is joined by Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinovic—whose
poetry collection Sarajevo Blues he translated for a City Lights Books
publication—in a reading co-sponsored by Ivri-NASAWI. He reads "no place
not rome" and "migration/Hejira" from his book-length poem From the Warring
Factions. Steve Dickison introduces Alcalay and Semezdin Mehmedinovic.
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