The Abduction by Maram al-Masri, trans. by Theo Dorgan
PBS Winter Translation Choice 2020 Josephine Corcoran at the same time

at the same time

The first half of this

collaged response to the poet’s direct experience of the terrorist attack in London on June 3rd

the first of which was taken on the day when he was born

brings his unique tragedian’s eye to bear on both the city’s and our society’s efforts to right itself

The Abduction by Maram al-Masri, trans. by Theo Dorgan <br><b>PBS Winter Translation Choice 2020</b> Josephine Corcoran at the same timeGrief is a kind of exile, and these are the poems of an exile, of a woman driven by cruelty into a world where her rights as a mother are negated the right to give love, the right to receive love, the right to determine her life in accord with her own independent sense of what is proper and just. Her subjects here are grief and love, the truths and impossibilities of each and both. More particularly, the grief of a loving mother cruelly separated from