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  • the revolutionary love thing

    the revolutionary love thing

    Poet and translator Noah Mazer’s “the revolutionary love thing” is a lyric rebuke of the ways “revolutionary love” can mystify colonial dynamics by “asking the brutalized / to love for our distant sake.”

  • Liberal Poem for Palestine

    Liberal Poem for Palestine

    In this brief lyric, poet and translator Noah Mazer skewers liberalism’s incessant denunciations of Palestine’s armed struggle against colonial dispossession.