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Many years ago
my friend Amos Kenan
a complicated man (who isn’t)
published a new book
and said that
it’s a good thing there
are strangers in the world
because friends
don’t read your work
very often. I
didn’t believe him.
Why wouldn’t friends
read what you wrote?
His explanation:
they are busy and besides,
they don’t really want to.
Well, I bought his book, the dystopian "The Road to Ein Harod" when it was published in Hebrew, and when I was based in Chelsea at the Chelsmore Apartments and he was living one floor above me, he gave me a copy of the English translation. Amos was featured together with Palestinian poet Rashed Hussein in the first ever Israeli-Palestinian dialogue on film, made by pioneering doc filmmaker Lionel Rogosin in 1974. Here he is in the trailer for his son Michael's follow-up film "Imagine Peace" (I'm there too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vgIeV2fKLg
I think Amos is right.