Heaven Looks Like Us (eBook)

Palestinian Poetry

George Abraham, Noor Hindi (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
369 Seiten
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
979-8-88890-409-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US is a battle-cry against the annihilation of a people. As Palestinian history remains haunted by exile, violence, and grief, so, too, are the poems in this anthology. And yet, editors George Abraham and Noor Hindi present these realities alongside other themes that are also true: queer and feminist perspectives, eco-poetry, meditations on love and time, and lineages of protest. This anthology dares to imagine a future beyond a nation-state for Palestinian people everywhere. Contributors include Refaat Alareer, Mahmoud Darwish, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mohammed El-Kurd, A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Hala Alyan, Fady Joudah, and Heba Abu Nada, and many other voices, both established and ascending.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: anti-colonial poetry • anti-imperial poetry • Cultural Memory • Eco Poetry • feminist poetry • free palestine • gift books for activists • gift books for poetry lovers • Middle Eastern poetry • Nakba • Palesine • palestinian art • palestinian culture • Palestinian history • palestinian liberation • palestinian poetry • Poetry • poetry anthologies • poetry as resistance • poetry on loss • poetry on love • poetry on memory • poetry on time • queer poetry
• ISBN-13: 979-8-88890-409-1 / 9798888904091