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Here you can see a great feature with Widad Nabi on 3Sat:3sat culture time
Fixpoetry.com:
With Nabi, too, the focus is on the war, on remembering, on loss and the question of how to live on and how to deal with all of this. She also writes love poems, erotic poems, which in places symbolically take up the war, but convey a deep longing for security on the one hand and for self-assertion on the other. (..) more
– Gerrit Wustmann
taz.de:
In a nearby café, Nabi tells what Berlin means to her: that for her it's a gateway to German culture. There are many places and people to discover in such a large and culturally rich city. more
reading sample
Nobody reads poetry in the morning
Nobody reads poetry in the morning.
The bird leaves its nest
to snap a photo with the barbed wire on the border.
The lover lays his head on the rusty station bench
he thinks of his beloved whom he forgot in his pocket.
The soldier fills the city with the dust of his military shoes,
poetry goes with me up the escalator into solitude.
And smiles.
Nobody reads poetry in the morning
Nobody reads poetry in the morning
The bird leaves its nest to take a photo
With barbed wire borders
The lover puts his head on the rusting station seat
And he thinks about the hand of his girlfriend who remained forgotten in his pocket
The soldier fills the city with the dust of his military boots
As poetry goes up the escalator with me to solitude
smiling
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