So What New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005

Name: So What New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005
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ISBN: 9781556592454

ISBN-10: 1556592450

ISBN-13: 9781556592454

Edition: 2006

Authors: Taha Muhammad Ali, Peter Cole, Gabriel Levin, Peter Cole

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"Taha Muhammad Ali speaks with an emotional forthrightness. . . . He has developed a style that seems both ancient and new, deceptively simple and movingly direct."- The Washington Post Taha Muhammad Ali is a revered Palestinian poet whose work is driven by vivid imagination, disarming humor, and unflinching honesty. As a boy he was exiled from his hometown, but rather than turning to a protest poetry of black-and-white slogans to convey this loss, he has created art of the highest order. His poems portray experiences that range from catastrophe to splendor, each preserving an essential human dignity. Neither music fame nor wealth, not even poetry itself, could…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.01" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



On Taha Muhammad Ali


A Note on the Translation


Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower


Warning


Postoperative Complications Following the Extraction of Memory


Thrombosis in the Veins of Petroleum


The Fourth Qasida


Exodus


Crack in the Skull


Ambergris


The Evening Wine of Aged Sorrow


Fooling the Killers


There Was No Farewell


Three Qasidas


Never Mind


Maybe


The Falcon


Sabha's Rope


The Bell at Forty: The Destruction of a Village


Empty Words


Twigs


The Height of Love


Meeting at an Airport


Abd el-Hadi the Fool


This Is the Steel Mihrab About to Fall and That's My Mother, Before She Ceased to Mourn


Balance


Fellah


Sahbr and Zeynab Ascend


Michelle


No, Papa, Please!


Where


The Place Itself, or I Hope You Can't Digest It


Between Sleep and Waking


Nothing More


The Kid Goats of Jamil


Tea and Sleep


So What (a story)


Notes


About the Author and Translators