This letter belongs to the late, great Kurdish poet and thinker Maref Agaei. He wrote it to me in 1994.
In the letter, he says:
“Dear Hiva, your poetic style carries powerful emotion and deep thought. I greatly admire these short poems with such rich meaning. I have received two of your new poems, and I hope we can publish them as soon as possible.
Please keep writing, and send me more of your poems.”
The main book of documenta 14 takes the form of a reader, evoking the various meanings associated with the term. The documenta 14 Reader
explores—in essay, allegory, poem, historical legal document, and
hybrid literary other—the discursive and practical concerns of the
project, such as debt and gift, the coloniality of power, economies of
the exhibition, and languages (and other currencies) without remainder. A
critical anthology that reflects on history in order to better envision
the present and reconceptualize the future, the Reader
features both newly commissioned and foundational texts as well as image
portfolios that illustrate the expansive scope—at once temporal and
geographic—of historical artists and actors included in the documenta 14
project.
This year the World Poetry Day will be a memorable day to all of us, and
this event is co-sponsored by the Black Sea Networks at Columbia
University. Dear friends, colleagues, and all those around the world, I have spent 22 years of my life, over half of my lifespan, in Greece. Initially...
