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Evans’ Rag

Vol 2 Issue 9

On this week’s NY Times Book Review’s front page, Colum McCann’s Apeirogon is reviewed by Julie Orringer. McCann’s is a fictionalized telling of a true story of two fathers’ grieving their lost daughters, one Israeli the other Palestinian. Orringer’s review is worth reading–and she insists McCann’s book deserves a wide audience–wider than just the readers of the NY Times Book Review.

She quotes one father: “When they killed my daughter they killed my fear. I have no fear. I can do anything now,” and she continues: “It’s one thing to read those lines in a newspaper report; it’s another to feel them from the inside. Apeirogon is an empathy engine, utterly collapsing the gulf between teller and listener.”

In 2005, the NY Times carried a story that made me cry. In Gaza's Berry Fields A Family Reels. I began this poem that same day.