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And yet that mind is full of its own fierce and funny voice, its own preoccupations and strangenesses. “It matters to me,” writes Abu Al-Hayyat, “what you’re thinking now \/ as you coerce your kids to sleep \/ in the middle of shelling”: whether it’s coming up with “plans \/ to solve the world’s problems,” plans that “eliminate longing from stories, remove exhaustion from groans,” or dreaming “of a war \/ that’s got no war in it,” or proclaiming that “I don’t believe in survival.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eYou Can Be the Last Leaf\u003c\/em\u003e, Abu Al-Hayyat has created a richly textured portrait of Palestinian interiority—at once wry and romantic, worried and tenacious, and always singing itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/strong\u003eMilkweed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/strong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/strong\u003e88 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/strong\u003e9781571315403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSee Maya reading one of her Children's Books\u003cem\u003e Falfoul fi Beit al Ghoul:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A2u5mXhGcKQ\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42541811826857,"sku":"Book_last_leaf","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/3844\/5225\/files\/IMG-4501.jpg?v=1730521899"},{"product_id":"dear-god-dear-bones-dear-yellow-1","title":"Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Noor-Hindi\/e\/B09MV3TS7B\/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\"\u003eNoor Hindi\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Author)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is political poetry and linguistic activism? 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A survivor of four brutal military attacks, he bears witness to a grinding cycle of destruction and assault, and yet, his poetry is inspired by a profound humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living in constant lockdown, and often under direct attack. Like Gaza itself, they are filled with rubble and the ever-present menace of surveillance drones policing a people unwelcome in their own land, and they are also suffused with the smell of tea, roses in bloom, and the view of the sea at sunset. Children are born, families continue traditions, students attend university, and libraries rise from the ruins as Palestinians go on about their lives, creating beauty and finding new ways to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccompanied by an in-depth interview (conducted by Ammiel Alcalay) in which Abu Toha discusses life in Gaza, his family origins, and how he came to poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThings You May Find Hidden in My Ear:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mosab Abu Toha is an astonishingly gifted young poet from Gaza, almost a seer with his eloquent lyrical vernacular … His poems break my heart and awaken it, at the same time. I feel I have been waiting for his work all my life.”—\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Though forged in the bleak landscape of Gaza, he conjures a radiance that echoes Miłosz and Kabir. These poems are like flowers that grow out of bomb craters and Mosab Abu Toha is an astonishing talent to celebrate.”—\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Karr\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mosab Abu Toha's \u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings You May Find Hidden in My Ear \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003earrives with such refreshing clarity and voice amidst a sea of immobilizing self-consciousness. It is no great feat to say a complicated thing in a complicated way, but here is a poet who says it plain: 'In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die.' Later, 'This is how we survived.' It’s remarkable. 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These shifts are rapid but graceful, a grace that is well captured by Shaheen's translations... a carefully, almost symmetrically structured collection ... beautifully produced.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-- Electronic Intifada\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\" id=\"author\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Interlink, 2024\u003cbr\u003eHardcover, 95 pages \u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-1623716769\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"center\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMahmoud Darwish, born in 1941 in the village of al-Birweh, Palestine, was the author of over two dozen volumes of poetry and prose. He died in the summer of 2008. Mohammad Shaheen is professor of English at the University of Jordan and the author of many books, including E.M. 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Collecting the finest work from Jordan’s ten volumes, as well as dozens of “last poems” that were never published in Jordan’s lifetime, these more than six hundred pages overflow with intimate lyricism, elegance, fury, meditative solos, and dazzling vernacular riffs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJune Jordan's support for the Palestinian people was unwavering. Her poem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “Apologies to All the People in Lebanon” was first published in the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e on 20 July 1982 and is included in this volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Adrienne Rich writes in her introduction, June Jordan “wanted her readers, listeners, students, to feel their own latent power—of the word, the deed, of their own beauty and intrinsic value.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"2vjiiv-apwqmv-998r31-slroox\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1556592345\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" class=\"celwidget\" id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe cloth edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDirected by Desire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was selected as a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Poetry Book of the Year and received the Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJune Jordan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e taught at UC Berkeley for many years and founded Poetry for the People. Her twenty-eight books include poetry, essays, fiction, and children’s books. She was a regular columnist for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and a prolific writer whose articles appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Nation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e After her death in 2002, a school in the San Francisco School District was renamed in her honor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCopper Canyon Press\u003c\/span\u003e, 2007\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 640 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-1-55659-234-8\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-1556592348\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44597062729897,"sku":"Book_directed by desire","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/3844\/5225\/files\/IMG-7992.jpg?v=1726210623"},{"product_id":"forest-of-noise-poems","title":"Forest of Noise: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eForest of Noise: Poems\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby Mosab Abu Toha\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A powerful, capacious, and profound\" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarely 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are those poems. Uncannily clear, direct, and beautifully tuned, they form one of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime. Here are directives for what to do in an air raid; here are lyrics about the poet’s wife, singing to his children to distract them. Huddled in the dark, Abu Toha remembers his grandfather’s oranges, his daughter’s joy in eating them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely livable occupation, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eForest of Noise\u003c\/span\u003e invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imagination—even as it is watched live. Abu Toha's poems introduce readers to his extended family, some of them no longer with us. This is an urgent, extraordinary, and arrestingly whimsical book. Searing and beautiful, it brings us indelible art in a time of terrible suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher : ‎Knopf, 2024\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage ‏: ‎English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback ‏: ‎96 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN-13 ‏: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-1-923049-43-7\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44658931204265,"sku":"Book_forest of noise","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/3844\/5225\/files\/IMG-8091.jpg?v=1726524186"},{"product_id":"if-i-must-die-poetry-and-prose","title":"If I must Die: Poetry and Prose","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-width=\"154\" class=\"author notFaded\"\u003eRefaat Alareer\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"contribution\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Author),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-width=\"190\" class=\"author notFaded\"\u003eYousef M. Aljamal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"contribution\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Compiler),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-width=\"176\" class=\"author notFaded\"\u003eSusan Abulhawa\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"contribution\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Foreword)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe renowned poet and literature professor Refaat Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongside his brother, sister, and nephews in December 2023. He was just forty-four years old, but had already established a worldwide reputation that was further enhanced when, in the wake of his death, the poem that gives this book its title became a global sensation. “If I Must Die” is included here, alongside Refaat’s other poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRefaat wrote extensively about a range of topics: teaching Shakespeare and the way Shylock could be appreciated by young Palestinian students; the horrors of living under repeated brutal assaults in Gaza, one of which, in 2014, killed another of his brothers; and the generosity of Palestinians to each other, fighting, in the face of it all, to be the one paying at the supermarket checkout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuch pieces, some never before published, have been curated here by one of Refaat’s closest friends and collaborators. This collection forms a fitting testament to a remarkable writer, educator, and activist, one whose voice will not be silenced by death but will continue to assert the power of learning and humanism in the face of barbarity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRefaat Alareer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egained his PhD with a dissertation on the poetry of John Donne. He taught English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, now destroyed. He is the editor of two collections of writing by his students, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGaza Writes Back\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGaza Unsilenced \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (both published by Just World Books). His journalism featured in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and he appeared on the BBC, ABC News, and Democracy Now. 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Her poems interweave Palestine’s historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will, and the gentle delights we embrace to survive that violence. Khalaf Tuffaha’s elegant poems sing the fractured songs of Diaspora while remaining clear-eyed to the cause of the fracturing: the multinational hubris of colonialism and greed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection is her witness to our collective unraveling, vowel by vowel, syllable by syllable. “Let the plural be a return of us” the speaker of “On the Thirtieth Friday We Consider Plurals” says and this plurality is our tenuous humanity and the deep need to hang on to kindness in our communities. In these poems, Khalaf Tuffaha reminds us that love isn’t an idea; it is a radical act. Especially for those who, like this poet, travel through the world vigilantly, but steadfastly remain heart first. ―Adrian Matejka, author of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSomebody Else Sold the World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of two books of poetry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWater \u0026amp; Salt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Red Hen Press) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKaan and Her Sisters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Trio House Press 2023). She has received honors including the 2018 Washington State Book Award, the 2019 Robert Watson Literary Prize, 2020 Best of the Net for nonfiction, and the Goldstein Prize for Poetry. Tuffaha was the 2022 curator of the translation series Poems from Palestine at the Baffler magazine. 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One of the greatest poets of the last half century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession and exile. His poems display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity. Here, his close friends John Berger and Rema Hammami present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish’s later works. Illustrated with original drawings by John Berger, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMural\u003c\/span\u003e is a testimony to one of the most important and powerful poets of our age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct details ·\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ Verso, 2024\u003cbr\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎ English \u003cbr\u003eHardcover ‏ : ‎136 pages \u003cbr\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-1804297117\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44975492071593,"sku":"Book_mural","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/3844\/5225\/files\/mural_2.jpg?v=1744612809"},{"product_id":"dear-inheritors","title":"Dear Inheritors","description":"\u003cp\u003eDear Inheritors by Kathy Engel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-5m c2-9d c2-9e\"\u003eDear Inheritors \u003c\/em\u003eis written for you—regardless of your politics, race, or class. At once tender and brutally honest, Kathy Engel’s poetic letter to her readers reveals the everyday “hurricane” that lives “under the belly of the good life”—unnamed inequities, the “tattoo of two worlds divided by train tracks,” witness masquerading as activism. But the same poems that indict, also console, encourage us. Yes, we “live inside contradictions,” still we are learning “who can we keep alive” and what a “do-over” might look like. Part metaphor, part instructions for repair, Engel’s collection taunts us, lyrics us—ultimately, heals us. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cstrong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-48 c2-9d\"\u003eKimberly Blaeser, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-5m c2-9d c2-9e\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-48 c2-9d\"\u003eAncient Light, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-48 c2-9d\"\u003epast Wisconsin Poet Laureate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKathy Engel stands open, vulnerable, in a vast world “Where the mirror is confused[.]” and does not flinch. She refuses her own world’s “thousand masks” of denial, even when anguish or privilege tempt or obfuscate.  Her lyricism and her direct speech live among tables, blessing bowls, and gardens; horses, wild birds, and public art; “spit, paste, memory, hammer;” and always the sea, her beloved Atlantic where the waters live and where she physically tunes her attention to far songs. Engel wears a mantle of poet-citizen lightly but authentically, bearing a decades-rich devotion to and work inside literary and social justice communities.  Who dares to sing of “we” or “us” while inhabiting a place “where land stays stolen\/swollen?” This book declares “we are more than the names\/of places, more than lists—” and it lives there\/here at soul-level.  Engel’s clarity and conscience also embrace a tender mortality— “even when the severing is slow[.]” \u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-5m c2-9d c2-9e\"\u003eDear Inheritors\u003c\/em\u003e addresses populi.      \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-48 c2-9d\"\u003eJudith Vollmer is the author of six books of poetry, including most recently \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-5m c2-9d c2-9e\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-48 c2-9d\"\u003eThe Sound Boat: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-48 c2-9d\"\u003e(University of Wisconsin 2022). \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAudre Lorde once asked \"where is true history written, except in the poems?\" In \u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-5m c2-9d c2-9e\"\u003eDear Inheritors\u003c\/em\u003e we experience the interconnected love-scale of a being committed to beauty in the form of freedom for all oppressed people, accountability in the form of interspecies presence, and grace in the form of ongoing witness, whether witnessing a mimosa tree in the yard, a loved one, the ebbs and flows of a movement or the porous self, transformed by all of it.  This book will help you remember how to be \u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-5m c2-9d c2-9e\"\u003ehere, \u003c\/em\u003elovingly, curiously inside whichever indescribable moment you face.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-48 c2-9d\"\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs, PhD,  is the author of six books including most recently \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-5m c2-9d c2-9e\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-48 c2-9d\"\u003eUndrowned\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-5k c2-44 c2-3 c2-9c c2-l c2-48 c2-9d\"\u003e (AK Press, 2020). \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Dear Inheritors\" moves from the intimacy of home and family to community to social movement, to other countries, back to dirt, river birch and sycamore, to the sea. Opening with the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, looking back to childhood awakenings, the poems work against linear chronology, raising questions of responsibility and culpability, leaning into the spiritual, a world of question.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKathy Engel started, imagined, co-coordinated\/curated a bunch of projects with many others, including cultural component of June 12, 1982 March for Disarmament and Human Rights, talking Nicaragua, Moving Towards Home, MADRE (which she directed for five years, Riptide Communications, Stand With Sisters for Economic Dignity, Who I Will Be, Poets for Ayiti, Hayground School, KickAss Artists, Lyrical Democracies, East End for Peace, East End Women in Black... co edited with Kamal Boullata, We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon. Other books include Ruth's Skirts, The Lost Brother Alphabet. She teaches, meaning co-learns, at New York University in the Department of Art \u0026amp; Public Policy.The rest is in the poems, she hopes. 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A rendering of Joudah’s survivance, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e[...]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e speaks to Palestine’s daily and historic erasure and insists on presence inside and outside the ancestral land. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eResponding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens—a world filled with ordinary desires, no matter how grand or tragic the details may be—and asks their reader to be changed by them. The sequences are meditations on a carousel: the past returns as the future is foretold. But “Repetition won’t guarantee wisdom,” Joudah writes, demanding that we resuscitate language “before [our] wisdom is an echo.” These poems of urgency and care sing powerfully through a combination of intimate clarity and great dilations of scale, sending the reader on heartrending spins through echelons of time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e[…]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a wonder. Joudah reminds us “Wonder belongs to all.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFady Joudah\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e[…]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas also published six collections of poems: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Earth in the Attic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAlight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTextu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFootnotes in the Order of Disappearance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTethered to Stars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, a PEN award, a Banipal\/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. 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Following a great tradition of poetry throughout history, this book shows the vast conscience and lyrical spirit of resistance on the part of poets in support of the dignity, rights, and humanity of the Palestinian and Lebanese people. We Begin Here is an affirmation of the human and poetic spirit, reminding us that poetry and struggle always \"begin here,\" always leading us back to ourselves, to each other, in community, seeking truth and beauty across all borders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.\" -- Susan Sontag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'We Begin Here' offers poetry whose aesthetic labor is inextricable from its political labor- poetry that works to end a silence externally imposed by media framing and outright censorship and internally imposed by those who fear reprisals for speaking out. -\u003cbr\u003e- Philip Metres, Journal of Palestinian Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection offers and intricate understanding of what it means to resist, to give birth to change, to create meaning out of astonishing political chaos and violence. \u003cbr\u003e-- Heather Bidell, Artvoice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eKathy Engel is a poet, teacher, producer and consultant for social justice and peace organizations. 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data-csa-c-id=\"nz0znz-qc2afw-ppel3t-61qbzi\" data-cel-widget=\"quantityPricingTableSummaryInPriceBlock_feature_div\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"B0CF7LRXSR\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"u7t0ok-v8uk9g-da442i-uzmk4h\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA new collection from award-winning poet Zeina Azzam, poet laureate of Alexandria, Virginia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e“Azzam writes with heart and with an ear keenly tuned to the rhythms of displacement and loss. Her poems braid sorrow and hope together with the silk thread of her mother’s prayer, “khayr inshallah! Goodness, God willing!” Through her childhood memories in Arab cities to the repeated farewells and departures of exile, Azzam’s poems alternately mourn and celebrate the wonders of life; a child’s fascination with language, the estrangement of a sibling, the sensual pleasures of a resplendent meal, and the promise of renewed love. These poems are “a hedge against hardship,\/an incantation” and their music will stay with you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e—Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, author of \u003cem\u003eKaanand Her Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWater \u0026amp; Salt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZeina Azzam is a Palestinian American poet, writer, editor, and community activist. She is the Poet Laureate of the City of Alexandria, Virginia, for 2022-2025. Her chapbook, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBayna Bayna, In-Between\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was released in 2021 by The Poetry Box. Her poems appear in journals, webzines, and anthologies including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePleiades, Mizna, Gyroscope, Cutleaf Journal, National Academy of Poets Poem-a-Day, Split this Rock, Bettering American Poetry, The Southern Poetry Anthology: Virginia, Making Mirrors: Writing\/Righting by and for Refugees, Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e Gaza Unsilenced.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Her commissioned poem, “You Birth the Seeds,” was recently rendered as a four-part choral work by the renowned composer Melissa Dunphy. Zeina’s works can also be found in art gallery catalogues and on public buses in the cities of Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher : ‎Tiger Bark Press, 2023\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage ‏: ‎English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback ‏: ‎92 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eISBN-13 ‏: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e979-8-9853587-4-2\u003c\/code\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/pre\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tiger Bark Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45414698123433,"sku":"Book_some things never leave you","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/3844\/5225\/files\/somethingsneverleaveyou.jpg?v=1744613437"},{"product_id":"heaven-looks-like-us","title":"Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeaven Looks Like Us:  Palestinian Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby \u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"\u003eGeorge Abraham \u003cspan class=\"contribution\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Editor), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"\u003eNoor Hindi \u003cspan class=\"contribution\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Editor)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free, free Palestine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoetry has always served as a mode of resistance in Palestinian culture. In defiance of dispossession and decades of military siege, of a nakba that never ended, of historical and cultural obfuscation, of unrelenting violence and thousands of martyred people, the “power to narrate,” as Edward Said wrote, remains a necessary tool for self-determination. The poems collected here reclaim that power, bridging borders, languages, and generations to forge new conversations around resistance and liberation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a battle-cry against the annihilation of a people. As Palestinian history remains haunted by exile, violence, and grief, so, too, are the poems in this anthology. And yet, editors George Abraham and Noor Hindi present these realities alongside other themes that are also true: queer and feminist perspectives, eco-poetry, meditations on love and time, and lineages of protest. This anthology dares to imagine a future beyond a nation-state for Palestinian people everywhere. Contributors include Refaat Alareer, Mahmoud Darwish, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mohammed El-Kurd, A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Hala Alyan, Fady Joudah, and Heba Abu Nada, and many other voices, both established and ascending.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A necessary anthology that burns with the ferocity of our people, who refuse to be erased. Urgent, unflinching, and gloriously alive, these poems remind us that to be Palestinian is to be a revolution.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Randa Jarrar, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLove Is an Ex-Country\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“\u003cem\u003eShattered. Gutted. A gut-punch. Devastated. This broke me\u003c\/em\u003e. I keep thinking about all the violent ways we describe how we feel in relation to art. It is woefully insufficient. This brilliant anthology did not wound me—did no harm, at all—if anything, its target is empire. These poems evoked in me the profound depths and range of human thinking and being encompassed in the words\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalestine\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eArab\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003elove\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eresistance\u003c\/em\u003e; I will be forever grateful for this ferocious reminder of what it means to be alive.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Omar Sakr\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Heaven Looks Like U\u003c\/em\u003es is a book every classroom, every library, and every poet should celebrate. This necessary, urgent, and historic volume heralds a revolutionary poetics that remakes our necrotic world. In a time when Palestinian poets are silenced, beaten, tortured, and murdered for their truth telling, we have this liberatory chorus. This is poetry that makes us alive. This is a gift that dares to sing, dares to punch empire in the neck. I am grateful for its abundance, its grace, its refusal, its rage, its love, its imaginatory force, its regeneration. Let this book spur its readers to action—any and all actions—until we are all free.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Cathy Linh Che\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Poetry is the language of our people; It is the language of resistance. Heaven Looks Like Us offers hope, rage, resilience, memory and dreams. This book is the distillation of a Palestinian future, the taste of freedom… a glimpse of what is to come.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Hannah Moushabeck, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·Publisher ‏ : ‎ Haymarket Books (2025) \u003cbr\u003e·Language ‏ : ‎ English \u003cbr\u003e·Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages \u003cbr\u003e·ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ \u003cspan\u003e9798888903650\u003c\/span\u003e     \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839503294633,"sku":"Book_heaven looks like us","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/3844\/5225\/files\/IMG-5595.jpg?v=1748111016"},{"product_id":"the-lives-of-rain-20th-anniversary-edition-by-nathalie-handal","title":"The Lives of Rain 20th Anniversary Edition By Nathalie Handal","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"leftCol\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"imageBlock_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"imageBlock\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"imageBlock\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"imageBlock_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1623716144\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"sdseij-28nh8e-acl6l4-ps93by\" data-cel-widget=\"imageBlock_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"imageBlock\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"image-block-desktop\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"image-block\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-op-log-render=\"\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-small imageBlockRearch\" data-csa-c-id=\"g17xly-xklqla-lid255-lvggl5\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-fixed-left-grid\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-fixed-left-grid-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-text-center a-fixed-left-grid-col regularImageBlockViewLayout a-col-right\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"altImages\" class=\"a-row\"\u003e\n\u003cul aria-label=\"Image thumbnails\" class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-button-list a-declarative a-button-toggle-group a-horizontal a-spacing-top-micro regularAltImageViewLayout\" role=\"radiogroup\" data-action=\"a-button-group\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"titleblock_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"fuuijh-f0zh0l-5opkuh-ebzz6j\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1623716772\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"titleblock_feature_div\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"titleblock\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-feature-name=\"titleblock\" class=\"celwidget\" id=\"titleblock_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-none\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lives of Rain 20th Anniversary Edition \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003eBy Nathalie Handal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"bylineInfo_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"z0sjv3-3q3b87-9ye10j-pofevv\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1623716772\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bylineInfo_feature_div\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bylineInfo\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-feature-name=\"bylineInfo\" class=\"celwidget\" id=\"bylineInfo_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"bylineInfo\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\" id=\"bylineInfo\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize\/The Pitt Poetry Series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lives of Rain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Nathalie Handal has brought forth a work of radical displacement and uncertainty, moving continent to continent, giving voice to Palestinians of the diaspora in the utterance of one fiercely awake and compassionate, who, against warfare, occupation and brutality offers her native language, olives, wind, a herd of sheep or a burning mountain, radio music, a butterfly’s gaze. It is a poetry of never arriving, of villages erased from the maps, of tattooed waistlines and kalishnikovs, a goat and a corpse cut open side by side, where every house is a prison. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a spare, chiseled language without ornament, she writes an exilic lyric, fusing Arabic, English, Spanish and French into a polyglot testament of horror and survival. Habibti, que tal? she asks of those who wander country to country, while those left behind in Jenin, Gaza City, and Bethlehem inhabit a continued past of blood\/of jailed cities.  Her subject is memory and forgetting, the precariousness of identity and the fragility of human community; it is the experience of suffering without knowledge of its end. Handal is a poet of deftly considered paradoxes and reversals, sensory evocations and mysteries left beautifully unresolved. Hers is a language seared by history and marked by the impress of extremity; so it is suffused with a rare species of wisdom. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— From the Foreword by Carolyn Forché\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"center\"\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"center\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNathalie Handal has lived in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. Poet, playwright, writer, editor, critic and literary activist, she finished her postgraduate studies in English and Drama at University of London, her MFA in Creative Writing and Literature at Bennington College, Vermont, her Master of Arts in English and her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Communications at Simmons College, Boston. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies and she is the editor of The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (Interlink, 2000), an Academy of American Poets bestseller and winner of the 2002 Pen Oakland\/Josephine Miles Book Award. She has recently recorded “Traveling Rooms,” a CD of her poetry with improvisational music by Vladimir Miller and Alexandr Alexandrov (ASC Records, 1999). She teaches at Columbia University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterlink Press, 2025\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 208 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9781623716271\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Interlink","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46401701085353,"sku":"Book_the lives of rain","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/3844\/5225\/files\/249A74AE-5EB5-4731-8898-A87E4C730A1E.jpg?v=1758766565"},{"product_id":"water-to-water","title":"Water to Water","description":"\u003cp class=\"product_title entry-title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWater to Water\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"product_title entry-title\"\u003eGaza Renga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Marilyn Hacker \u0026amp; Deema K. Shehabi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA poetry collaboration in the call-and-response form of Renga by two award-winning poets during the genocide in Gaza.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2009, prompted by the Israeli siege of Gaza, poets Marilyn Hacker and Deema Shehabi started a correspondence. It took the form of responding to each other’s poems. They resumed their poetic dialogue by email after Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir project involved an alternate call and response between them in the tradition of the Japanese renga form, each poet picking up a word, phrase, or image from the poem preceding. The result is a fascinating poetic conversation. 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They include three collections from different phases in Darwish’s writing career, as well as reminiscences by friends drawn from the poet’s final years, and a moving account of the discovery of the new poems in this collection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Interlink, 2017\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 225 pages \u003cbr\u003eISBN:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 9781566560009\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"center\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMahmoud Darwish, born in 1941 in the village of al-Birweh, Palestine, was the author of over two dozen volumes of poetry and prose. He died in the summer of 2008. Mohammad Shaheen is professor of English at the University of Jordan and the author of many books, including E.M. 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