Poetry Is Still Alive

Marzuq Halabi Poetry Is Still Alive If the texts included in the volume “Sea Feathers” were to have come into my hands without the author’s name, I could have identified the author immediately. Only Salman Masalha can bring such formulations, ideas, images and these...

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The Power to Free Birds

Ronny Someck The Power to Free Birds On: "In Place", Am Oved, 2004. "In Place," Salman Masalha's book of poems, is written at the juncture where my Arabic language kisses my Hebrew language. "I am an Arab poet," and the next poem in the collection begins "I write in the Hebrew language, / Which is not my mother tongue …" In any case, Salman...

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On the Wings of Freedom

Sabah Zwein On the Wings of Freedom On "Khana Farigha" (Blank Space) Salman Masalha’s language is characterized by the pushing of the self far from the banal. The language presents itself to the reader, sure of itself, quiet and different. The difference is in the constant orientation that the poet adopts in the work of constructing the poetic...

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تحليق بجناحي الحزن

صباح زوين || تحليق بجناحي الحزن لغة سلمان مصالحة اقصاء للذات عن الذات وعن المتداول. تقدم نفسها إلى القارئ واثقة، هادئة، مختلفة وأعني بالاختلاف الاتجاه الثابت الذي يتبناه الشاعر في بناء تعبيره الذي يبدو أليفًا للوهلة الأولى، لكنه في الواقع صدامي وقاس. يشعرنا بقوة...

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