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Heaven looks like us : Palestinian poetry / edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi.
Van Pelt Library PJ8190.65.E5 H43 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic poetry--Palestine.
- Arabic poetry.
- Poets, Palestinian Arab.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Poetry.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Palestine--Poetry.
- Palestine.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 343 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2025.
- Language Note:
- Text in English; some poems translated from various languages; some poems with parallel Arabic text.
- Summary:
- "A 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. In defiance of dispossession and decades of military siege, of unrelenting violence and thousands of martyred people, the 'permission to narrate,' as Edward Said wrote, is a necessary tool for self-determination. These poems reclaim that power, bridging borders, languages, and generations to forge new conversations around resistance and liberation. As Palestinian history remains haunted by exile, violence, and grief, so, too, are the poems in this anthology. Editors George Abraham and Noor Hindi present these realities alongside queer and feminist perspectives, meditations on land, love, and time, and lineages of protest. These poets dare to imagine a future beyond a nation-state for Palestinian people everywhere. Contributors include Refaat Alareer, Mahmoud Darwish, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mohammed El-Kurd, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Hala Alyan, Fady Joudah, Heba Abu Nada, and many others, both established and ascending"--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by George Abraham, with Noor Hindi
- Not just passing / Heba Abu Nada
- Our bags are always ready
- Revolution is feminine
- How I kill soldiers
- A poem hangs in balance
- Is the whole air the path of the gazelle
- I loved you without evidence
- Bitter English
- What I want is never called nation
- Beit for time
- Palestine is a futurism
- Endnote / by Noor Hindi, with George Abraham.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9798888903650
- 9798888904244
- OCLC:
- 1482141872
- Publisher Number:
- 90102183101
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