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I daydream that he visited the Rothko Chapel, continuing the conversation with death that he began in his famous long poem ... urgent responses to the war to poems about family, domesticity ...

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Sudan’s war has been raging since April 2023. The country was on a bumpy road to democracy after mass uprisings in 2019 ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. This all came to a halt when ...