{"product_id":"gaza-the-poem-said-its-piece-paperback","title":"Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNasser Rabah\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAmmiel Alcalay\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eEmna Zghal\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne of Lit Hub's most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLike Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Vallejo, Gazan poet Nasser Rabah embodies the magnificent possibilities of the human spirit and imagination under extreme conditions.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Nasser Rabah is my favorite living poet in Palestine. The musicality of his lines could replace my heartbeats and I would feel more than alive.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Mosab Abu Toha, author of \u003cem\u003eThings You May Find Hidden In My Ear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Gaza in 1963, Rabah spent some of his formative years in Egypt, before returning to Gaza in his early twenties, where he has lived ever since. There, among the generations who built its neighborhoods and populate its villages, in a place of great natural beauty and vibrant cities, living under constant surveillance, military occupation, blockade, siege and regular attack, in a culture steeped in literary and spiritual tradition, Rabah developed his distinctively singular vision and poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Rabah's first book in English translation. The poems include a selection from three of his published collections, along with new poems written after October 2023, during the full-scale Israeli assault on Gaza. Throughout, we find a combination of irreverence and fidelity to tradition, a sense of surrealism infusing the depiction of everyday incomprehensibilities, and an unsettling, delicate tenderness always on edge in an atmosphere of sensory inundation and emotional saturation. Rabah's poems can be raw and uninhibited by social or literary conventions, exploring and questioning one's relationship to divinity in absurd circumstances while confronting the sacred cows of his own society, along with the sometimes voyeuristic interest from those on the outside of it. His poetry constantly interrogates--sometimes playfully and sometimes in utter existential despair--the paradoxes and difficulties of expression and of writing itself. Nasser Rabah is a poet we have much to learn from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a bi-lingual edition and includes the original versions in Arabic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNasser Rabah\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Gaza in 1963. He got his BA in Agricultural Science in 1985, before going on to work as Director of the Communication Department in the Agriculture Ministry. He is a member of the Palestinian Writers and Authors Union and has published five collections of poetry, \u003cem\u003eRunning After Dead Gazelles\u003c\/em\u003e (2003); \u003cem\u003eOne of Nobody\u003c\/em\u003e (2011); \u003cem\u003ePassersby with Light Clothes\u003c\/em\u003e (2014); \u003cem\u003eWater Thirsty for Water\u003c\/em\u003e (2017); \u003cem\u003eEulogy for the Robin\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), and two novels, \u003cem\u003eSince approximately an hour\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), and\u003cem\u003e The Enclosure of the Gazelle\u003c\/em\u003e (2024). Some of his poems have been translated into English, French and Hebrew. He lives in Gaza.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmmiel Alcalay\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, novelist, translator, essayist, critic, and scholar whose over 20 books include \u003cem\u003eAfter Jews and Arabs\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMemories of Our Future\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIslanders\u003c\/em\u003e, andthe forthcoming C\u003cem\u003eONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003eFollow the Person: Archival Encounters\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmna Zghal \u003c\/strong\u003eis a visual artist and professional interpreter with an acute sense of poetry in a number of languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKhaled al-Hilli\u003c\/strong\u003e is a life-long student of the Arabic language and grammar and now professor of Arabic whose own life journey has immersed him in various Arabic milieus, from Iraqi to Lebanese and Levantine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMosab Abu Toha\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist from Gaza. His first collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eThings You May Find Hidden in My Ear\u003c\/em\u003e, published by City Lights, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Walcott Poetry Prize. His new book of poems is \u003cem\u003eForest of Noise\u003c\/em\u003e. Abu Toha is also the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his \"Letter from Gaza\" columns for \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.2 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53336947327341,"sku":"9780872869127","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/PhQDfailvV9780872869127.webp?v=1778922757","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/gaza-the-poem-said-its-piece-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}