man in the camp yes it is a camp chubby man & balding you smile there is the trash pile history & your time in italy all run together against the wall & the kids paving a street you were I don't know humming bored or probably laughing if science teaches us anything about patterns when the kid on the bike shot you I liked you no I loved you did I know you bella ciao ciao ciao & there is play & regret in your voice as you forget the words not just the city the world gave way when you died I swear it not just the world as I see it but the actual world
In May 2016, Baha Nababta was shot and killed by an unknown assailant while he was working with a group of volunteers to repair a street near his home in the Shuafat Refugee Camp, occupied East Jerusalem.
"It is, in one sense, the continuation of an old story. The corporatization of publishing began in the 1960s. Times Mirror acquired the esteemed mass-market paperback house New American Library in 1960 and hired McKinsey consultants to rationalize its operations, leading to increasing control for the business office and an exodus of editorial talent that included luminaries such as E. L. Doctorow and André Schiffrin."
"Vestigial shards of old legend and lore dart in and out of vertiginous fragments of human folly and futility, now like lightning on a clear day, now like fireflies on a talkative night. The 'I' slyly travails through historical significance and triviality until the tribulations of fear, faith, and ferocity surface in a dizzying dream state, hauling history into the prophetic present, where associative meanings are distilled into a crude and cruel illumination."
