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Joe Bolton
“And if poetry is a bond between
Two hearts, it is a bond too frail:
That night words failed, I, too, was lost—
To whiskey, memory, a photograph.”
Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

Joseph Brodsky
“However, we were of no ouse to each other: my sole currency in their language, the term espresso, was already spent; I'd used it twice.”
Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

Joe Bolton
“There's nothing in this warm, vegetal dusk that is not beautiful or that will last.”
Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

Joe Bolton
“The best days of summer are the days of summer gone.”
Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

Kim Ghattas
“For decades, Lebanon had lured not just revolutionaries but also poets, ideologues, artists, and all types of opposition figures and plotters. A weak state was both a blessing and a curse. In Beirut, there was no dictatorship to muzzle opinions—or your guns. The war had made the small Mediterranean country even more of a haven, a live training ground with a casino and restaurants that still served smoked salmon and caviar during cease-fires. There were breadlines and economic hardship, massacres and literary conferences. Every spy agency was in town: the CIA, the KGB, the Mossad.”
Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

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