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Wednesday Poetry: Jan Dost's 'Normalcy in Every War'

Wednesday Poetry: Jan Dost's 'Normalcy in Every War'

At the beginning of the war / we counted the casualties daily

Mar 06, 2024
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Back during our series of “lock-in literature,” Syrian Kurdish writer Jan Dost shared several short poems, translated by his daughter. Among them was “Normalcy in Every War.”

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