2014/12/22

Kubrick Poetry • January • Closed Gate

時間 Time2015/1/25 (Sunday) 4:00pm-5:00pm
地點 Venue:油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳
主持 Moderators: Polly Ho & Atom Cheung
詩人 Poet Sayed Gouda


Sayed Gouda’s Closed Gate juxtaposes the Tian’anmen Square Massacre in Beijing with the sufferings of Palestine. But while the novel’s narrative builds slowly and irreversibly towards its climactic conclusion in June 1989, the sufferings of Gaza are experienced in snatches, dreams, and traumatic flashes of sudden prose, as if to suggest that here is a drama that is not concluded – as it surely isn’t. The Tunisian poet Abu al-Qasim ash-Shabi is quoted by the novel’s innocent but open-eyed narrator as writing: ‘If someday people want to live/Fate must yield to them/And the night must have an end/And the chains must break.’ Closed Gate exhorts us towards this freedom without ever losing its composure or even becoming didactic. A gate is cracked upon just a bit, allowing us to see China’s tensions from an outsider’s perspective – and the continuing tragedy of Gaza from a perspective we all must accept as our own.

About Sayed Gouda
Sayed Gouda was born in Cairo, now living in Hong Kong. Gouda is a published poet, novelist, and translator. He is the editor of a literary website called Nadwah in five languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, and German (www.arabicnadwah.com). 

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