Heaven looks like us : Palestinian poetry
2025
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This text is 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. Poetry 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. This is a battle-cry against the annihilation of a people.
Main title:
Heaven looks like us : Palestinian poetry / edited by George Abraham, Noor Hindi.
Author:
Abraham, George (Poet), editorHindi, Noor, editor
Imprint:
Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2025.
Collation:
368 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
9798888903650 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
892.71008892.71 ABR
Language:
EnglishArabic
BRN:
8973073
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