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To Remember, Read, and Return: A Conversation Between Omar Sakr and George Abraham

To Remember, Read, and Return: A Conversation Between Omar Sakr and George Abraham

Omar Sakr & George Abraham, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2020

GEORGE: The last word of my final poem, in both its first and final draft, was 'stay'. It was the word I arrived at and returned to...I want to address that The Lost Arab’s final word is 'leave', like…We really did that psychically/telepathically? I’m curious to hear you talk about your relationship to that word, as it relates to your book and beyond the book even.

OMAR: The tension between 'stay' and 'leave' is so intense, but I think we’re both gesturing to our bodies, where we’ve been placed, how we are relating to that place, and to its abandonment. There are so many parallels between our books, and our last poems, they truly are siblings, dancing.

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