David Naimon
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first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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not being able to communicate, not only in the languages you were never given, but even in the ones you first spoke in, like the language at home.
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And I wondered if you could talk more about that and how that connects to you as a writer of poems and as a poet.
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Well, Giovanni in that interview when you're talking about language quotes the Algerian Jewish philosopher Derrida who said, I only have one language, it is not mine.
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And he's speaking of French, the language of the colonizer of his country, which makes me think of your line.
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I couldn't make sound in our only language.
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But another poet that comes up often for you.
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Sometimes in your poetry and even more so in interviews is Paul Solon, a German speaking Romanian Jewish poet who after the Holocaust his family murdered ended up in France.
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And I could imagine this impossible dislocated history might be what speaks to you, or that he, like Derrida, was vexed that his language was the language of his family's killers and how that changes his relationship to it.
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But of course it might simply be his far from simple poetry itself.
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Um so I was hoping maybe you'd just speak to us.
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for a moment about Paul Salon for you, whether his poetics and sensibility in relationship to yours are a f are f favorite or influential poets or something in his biography.
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Whatever comes to mind that you often name him is an important part of your poetry cosmology.
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Could we hear?
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Reading Ceylon and Dearborn Michigan and then afterwards the first two paragraphs of your new essay, What's Form to Silence, as as a preface to a a question that's gonna be asked to you by another.
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So our first question from another is from the poet Tracy Fouad, who is a member of the Kurdish Poets Collective you are also a part of and co-founded.
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She's a Kurdish-American poet living in Germany, where she directs the Berlin's Writers Workshop.
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Her latest book, Portal, with a starred review from Booklist, and praised by many past guests of this show, from Monica Yoon to Douglas Kearney to Joyelle McSweeney.
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Joyelle says about it.
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The gene editing technology CRISPR.
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works by looking for palindromes in genetic code, snipping the line just there, and splicing in new material.
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