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Art as Resistance | National Book Award Nominee Fargo Tbakhi on Writing Poetry in a Time of Genocide

By Lauren Abunassar

“I cannot genuinely say I believe that my writing and publishing a book with a small press based in the U.S. is an act of resistance. For me, it tends to get into these questions about rhetoric, or about public opinion, or about changing people's minds or hearts through our writing. But I don't know that I would call that resistance.”

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