{"id":14810,"date":"2016-07-15T02:39:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T06:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2016-07-15T02:39:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T06:39:58","slug":"new-poems-by-dareen-tatour-under-house-arrest-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/new-poems-by-dareen-tatour-under-house-arrest-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"New Poems by Dareen Tatour, Under House Arrest in\u00a0Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

via ArabLit &\u00a0MLYNXQUALEY<\/a><\/span><\/span> on<\/em> 0<\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Monday, July 18<\/a>\u00a0at 9:00 a.m., Palestinian poet Dareen\u00a0Tatour \u2014 currently under house arrest for alleged \u201cincitement\u201d via poetry \u2014 has her\u00a0next court date:<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Photo:<\/p>\n

Photo: Zahi Khamis. Previously appeared on Mondoweiss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

At this hearing, the\u00a0judge will rule on whether Tatour\u00a0can live at home in Reineh, a small Palestinian town outside of Nazareth, for the duration of her trial. She has been living in an apartment in Kiryat One, outside Tel Aviv, since October, and only allowed a special 48-hour pass to visit her family on the first day of Eid, described\u00a0by\u00a0Mondoweiss<\/em>\u00a0in \u201cA Visit to Dareen Tatour<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her family rented her the Kiryat One apartment after she\u00a0was ordered by the court to leave her village. Tatour also\u00a0wears an ankle monitor.<\/p>\n

As an editorial in\u00a0Haaretz <\/em>calling for Tatour\u2019s release<\/a>\u00a0notes,\u00a0Tatour was arrested last October \u201cat a predawn raid of her home by a large number of police officers, like some dangerous criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dangerous crime? A\u00a0poem that Tatour posted on Facebook, called Qawem ya sha\u2019abi, qawemhum,\u201d translated by poet Tariq Al-Haydar\u00a0as \u201cResist, My People, Resist Them<\/a>.\u201d The poem\u00a0allegedy incites violence.<\/p>\n

Over 150 writers, poets, translators, editors, artists, public intellectuals, and cutural workers \u2014 including Alice Walker, Naomi Klein, and Jacqueline Woodson \u2014 have signed a petition urging Tatour\u2019s release. The petition, at Jewish Voices for Peace<\/a>, is still open to signatories.<\/p>\n

Activists will also gather outside\u00a0the hearing on July 18<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two new translations of Tatour\u2019s work, by Jonathan Wright:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll Forget It, As You Wish<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Dareen Tatour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translated Jonathan Wright\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Dareen's<\/p>\n

Dareen\u2019s electronic monitor. Photo: Kim Jensen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As you wish,<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll forget it,<\/p>\n

The story of us that\u2019s now part of the past<\/p>\n

And the dreams that were once the fill of our hearts.<\/p>\n

We would have liked to make them come true,<\/p>\n

But we killed them.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll forget things, o love of my life,<\/p>\n

Things we said,<\/p>\n

The poems we wrote on the walls of our hearts<\/p>\n

And drew in colors,<\/p>\n

The trees under which we sat for a time,<\/p>\n

And the names we carved.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll forget them,<\/p>\n

As you wish,<\/p>\n

So don\u2019t be angry.<\/p>\n

I Will Not Leave<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Dareen Tatour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translated by Jonathan Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n

They signed on my behalf<\/p>\n

And turned me into<\/p>\n

A file, forgotten<\/p>\n

Like cigarette butts.<\/p>\n

Homesickness tore me apart<\/p>\n

And in my own country I ended up<\/p>\n

An immigrant.<\/p>\n

I abandoned those pens<\/p>\n

To weep over the sorrows<\/p>\n

Of the inkwells.<\/p>\n

They abandoned my cause and my dream<\/p>\n

At the cemetery gates<\/p>\n

And that person who\u2019s waiting<\/p>\n

Laments his luck<\/p>\n

As life passes.<\/p>\n

Besiege me,<\/p>\n

Kill me, blow me up,<\/p>\n

Assassinate me, imprison me.<\/p>\n

When it comes to my country,<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no backing down.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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