Poetry books from Palestine
Recommended poetry books (7)
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If you are into poetry here are some poetry books from Palestine for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Forest of Noise : Poems by Mosab Abu Toha EN
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. You are alive for a moment when living people run after you. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives. Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are... continue
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Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan EN
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A translation of the works of one of a key Palestinian poet contains his 10th and most recent poetry collection, along with selected earlier poems that illuminate the vision of what Arabic and Palestinian poetry are capable of.
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Rifqa is Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd's ode to his late grandmother, and to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. 'Jerusalem is ours.'
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RIFQA (2021), palavra árabe que significa amizade, era o nome da avó de Mohammed El-Kurd. Sobrevivente da Nakba, o êxodo forçado do povo palestiniano em 1948, e refugiada na sua própria terra, esta resistente, «mais velha do que Israel», é aqui evocada como símbolo do combate contra a opressão e o colonialismo. Livro de estreia do autor, belo exemplo da poesia palestiniana de resistência e que retoma vozes como as de Mahmoud Darwish e Ghassan Kanafani, RIFQA transmite-nos o sentimento de um povo em luta pela sua terra e memória. Prefácio de aja monet, poeta, performer e activista norte-america... continue
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Touch by Adania Shibli EN
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A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.