The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Reader of Resistance Poetry Helen Ivory Its thirty-one areas

Its thirty-one areas

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Jane Hirshfield and Naomi Shihab Nye

Modern Poetry investigates our time's deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now

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The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Reader of Resistance Poetry Helen Ivory Its thirty-one areasCollected and translated by A. M. Elmessiri Poetry has long been Palestines most vital art form a space where memory is safeguarded and resistance given voice. Spanning a century of upheaval and endurance, The Palestinian Wedding brings together twenty one major poets in a powerful bilingual anthology. From the charged lyricism of Tawfiq Zayyad to the expansive imagery of Walid al Halis; from the romantic cadences of Salma al Jayyusi to the profound