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Khaled Mattawa Quotes

born 1964 Libya

Khaled Mattawa ( born 1964) is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English. He works as an Assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, where he currently lives and writes.

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And the sundered bodies that we’ve reassembled

Would we not prefer to close our mouths forever shut

Why would we hide from the sun again

Now that we have come out of hiding

And some other teachers that I saw were not represented, so I wanted to make sure that I pay homage to them and thank them and publish great poems that I’ve written.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Khaled Mattawa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.