Palestine wail / poems by Yahia Lababidi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lababidi, Yahia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestine--Poetry.

Palestine.

Palestinian Arabs--Poetry.

Palestinian Arabs.

Genocide--Poetry.

Genocide.

Israel-Hamas War, 2023---Poetry.

Israel-Hamas War, 2023-.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xv, 99 pages : 1 illustration, 1 portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Wakefield, Quebec] : Daraja Press, [2024]

Summary:

"As an Arab-American bridge of a man by the name of Gibran reminds us: "Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?" This collection of poems attempts to answer that haunting question. The poems move across the difficult, pained arc from bursts of anguish, anger, and despair towards a more resilient hope. From noisy political entanglement towards a quieter spiritual surrender--in recognition of the inescapable truth that we are One and suffer when we forget this. The future we all long for is far more than mere cessation of violence (though surely this is a needed first step). Rather, the author argues, our shared goal has to do with becoming those who commit themselves "in the midst of darkness / and ugliness" to be among the ones who "hungered / for light and beauty." In these poems, the author wonders "how it is we readily accept that we are governed by physical laws like gravity yet believe that we can turn our backs on age-old spiritual laws like Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, Mercy, Trust, Hope without paying a high and deadly price. What if we were to consider that each time we betray our conscience, we strangle an angel? Keeping in mind that it is not at all certain that we are allotted an infinite supply of winged pardons.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9781998309115

1998309118

OCLC:

1442065548