“Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.”
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.