For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Juan Goytisolo went in exile from the Franco dictatorship in 1956 and has never returned to live in Spain. He now lives in Marrakesh. He has written more about his acquaintance with Jean Genet in his autobiography, Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife.
‘To live,’ writes Walter Benjamin, ‘means to leave traces’. As one might expect, Benjamin’s observation is not without a certain melancholy. Traces are lost...
