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Article: Address unknown. (poem) (Bearing Witness: Recent Literature from Lebanon)
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- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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In a strange country we meet, we say: "We'll keep in touch." The letters flare, Shorten in days, Colder, Finally return, On the envelope: "Address unknown." Certainly, sir, His address is known, never was it as clear, It is there Under thick lashes of grass.
Fuad Rifqa (B. 1930) attended high school at the Tripoli Boy School in North Lebanon and later studied at the American University of ...