Think About It 097: KAREN HO

 

What is clearly unique in the recent history of capitalism is the complete divorce of what is perceived as the best interests of the corporation from the interests of most employees.

 

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (2009)

 

 

 

 

Use the link below to read an article about the work of North American anthropologist and ethnographer KAREN HO:

https://www.epicpeople.org/karen-ho/

 

 

 

 

 

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The Write Advice 197: BETSY LERNER

 

…The writer's psychology is by its very nature one of extreme duality.  The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.  It isn't surprising, then, that many writers are ambivalent, if not altogether neurotic, about bringing their work forward.  For in so doing, a writer must face down that which he most fears: rejection.  There is no stage of the writing process that doesn't challenge every aspect of a writer's personality.  How well writers deal with those challenges can be critical to their survival.

 

The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers (revised edition 2010)

 

 

 

 

Use the link below to visit the website of North American writer, poet, editor and literary agent BETSY LERNER:

https://betsylerner.com/

 

 

 

 

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The Write Advice 097: URSULA K LE GUIN

 

 

The Write Advice 064: JOY WILLIAMS

 

 

Poet of the Month 091: PARWEEN FAIZ ZADAH MALAAL

 

PARWEEN FAIZ ZADAH MALAAL

 

 

 

 

LIKE A DESERT FLOWER

 

 

Like a desert flower waiting for rain,

like a river-bank thirsting for the touch of pitchers,

like the dawn

longing for light;

and like a house,

like a house in ruins for want of a woman —

the exhausted ones of our times

need a moment to breathe,

need a moment to sleep,

in the arms of peace, in the arms of peace.

 

 

 

Translated by

DAWOOD AZAMI

 

 

 

 

 

Poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster and diplomat Parween Faiz Zadah Malaal was born in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan in 1957.  She attended Kabul University and began her journalistic career as a reporter for the newspaper Tolo-e-Afghan, remaining in the capital where she was later employed by the state-owned Radio Afghanistan.

 

When Afghanistan became a war zone she fled to Pakistan where she married while confined to a refugee camp.  She remained in Pakistan following the death of her husband, eventually becoming the Cultural Attaché at the Afghan consulate in Karachi and publishing three collections of poetry between 1987 and 2000 and one short story collection in 1996, all of which were written in her native tongue Pashto.  She remains one of her country's most popular female poets and continues to live in exile in Karachi.

 

 

Use the link below to read more translated poems by contemporary Afghan poets:

 

https://www.poetrytranslation.org/poets/from/afghanistan

 

 

 

 

 

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Poet of the Month 051: SHAKILA AZIZZADA

 

 

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The Write Advice 196: CLAIRE MESSUD

 

I reckon you don’t write to please other people.  That’s what your integrity is. There are bell bottoms and miniskirts, and there are pencil skirts and stiletto heels.  You can write something that’s a perfect work of art, but if it’s a pencil skirt that falls in a miniskirt moment, God help you.  You just have to make your pencil skirt and be you.

 

'Who's Afraid of Claire Messud?' [The New York Times, 10 August 2017]

 

 

 

 

Use the link below to visit the website of North American novelist CLAIRE MESSUD:

 

 

 

https://www.clairemessud.com/

 

 

 

 

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