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Extending the collection beyond his trademark urban locale are startling poems for the loved and departed: from the artist Francis Bacon to the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Barry MacSweeney

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demonstrating the power of poetry to connect us

rock flight Joan Fuster Extending the collection beyond hisrock flight is a book length poem that follows a personal and historical narrative to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestines occupation. The poem uses refrains of suffocation, rubble, and migratory bird patterns to address the realities of forced displacement, economic restrictions and surveillance technology that Palestinians face both within and outside Palestine. It depicts a restlessness brought about by dispossession, and a