Minor Detail - Adania Shibli " and when to laugh

" and when to laugh

Montale's poems teem with allusion and metaphor but at the same time are densely studded with concrete images that keep his complex musings firmly tethered to the world

thinks it’s a jaguar or a wild boar

alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne

and between words and silence

Minor Detail - Adania Shibli " and when to laughMinor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this minor detail