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We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon
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We Begin Here:
Edited by Kathy Engel and Kamal Boullata
We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon contains poems written in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon together with new ones rising from the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. 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.
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'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. -
- Philip Metres, Journal of Palestinian Studies
This 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.
-- Heather Bidell, Artvoice
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Publisher: Interlink
Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN: 978-1566566872
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