Elliott Colla Quotes

Palestinian society is filled with poetry, but not experimental poetry. The Palestinian poetry that people know is not the modernist experimentations, it's certain kinds of poetry that lends itself to recitation and song and things like that.

Elliott Colla

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  Elliott Colla
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  • Palestinian
  • Experimentation