17/08/2026
Introducing ENDLESS NIGHT by Assem Bazzi ✨
“This is a document about dislocation, disembodiment and damnation. The poems abandon performative ‘resilience’ and move inwards to embrace the murky experience of mundane, impure, existence. Assem is not even interested in the Trauma Olympics of survivalist epics and the trumpeters of hope, nor the ‘poetic propagandas’ of grandeur, selective memories forged by tears and gunpowder. The empty-eyed, jaded poet/witness whispers a different song. This is a poetics of death (damnation?) in the face of those who tango on our graves and convince us that our accidental martyrdom has meaning. This is less about embracing defeat so much as choosing not to partake in the theatrics of it all.
Endless Night is a nuanced exclamation of humanity, by refusing to be enchanted by either life or death. Just recognizing that we are all fu**ed. It takes a different kind of courage to embrace Damnation without yielding to it.
Those who have walked in the darkness, who know the stench of ordinary death reeking from the concrete, the witnesses of hollow promises and lurking dooms, they know that the night has been, still is, and will remain. They are too familiar with the Night to be shook by it.”
—Nour M.J. Hodeib, founder of el-Yafta poetry circle
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