From the River to the Sea (eBook)

and other poems

Samer Abu Hawwash (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
96 Seiten
Banipal Books (Verlag)
978-1-913043-51-3 (ISBN)

Infos

These 24 poems are an intrepid literary journey into the Gaza genocide, linked to Palestine's long years of existential trauma and documenting the universal human questions so many are asking about today, all through a lexicon that expresses with graphic poetic sensibility the gazes, the closed, open, dead eyes of famished families and fragmented little corpses.

Autor

Samer Abu Hawwash is a Palestinian poet, writer and translator, born in Sidon, Lebanon, in 1972. He started publishing his works in Lebanese magazines and newspapers in 1991, and in 1996 graduated in Journalism and Communication from the Lebanese University. His first poetry collection, "Life is Printed in New York", was published in 1997 and his most recent, "From the River to the Sea", in 2024. His nine other poetry collections include "This Is Not How Pizza Is Made", "I Will Kill You", "Death", "Last Selfie with a Dying World" and "Ruins". He also has three fiction works, "The Journal of Photographed Niceties", "Valentine's Day" and "Happiness or a Series of Explosions that Shook the Capital". From 2004 he lived and worked in the United Arab Emirates, translating and editing American poetry and English-language fiction, and currently resides in Barcelona, Spain. He started his project translating American poetry in 1995 and has translated into Arabic works by over twenty American poets, including Charles Bukowski, Langston Hughes, Kim Addonizio, Robert Bly, Billy Collins and Charles Simic. He has also translated over forty prose works by major internationally renowned writers, including Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", Yann Martel's "Life of Pi", and "The Invention of Solitude", "Travels in the Scriptorium" and "Sunset Park" by Paul Auster. In 2009, he was one of 39 Arab authors chosen for the Beirut39 project, which took place in 2009-2010 when Beirut was the Arab World Book Capital. In 2024, he was awarded the Sargon Boulus Prize for poetry and translation.

Inhalt

CONTENTS

The ruins
Our children's gaze amid the rubble
Sitting in front of the TV screen, I watch the genocide
My people
The ringing
The hyenas
The massacre
Silent exodus
It doesn't matter any more
The tree of locks
Little corpses
A lost shoe
The last city
The number
The boy
A name in a maze
The great hunt
A woman beneath a sheet
Looking
Until the war is over
From the river to the sea
On a killer whose name I do not wish to mention
Death in his last nightmares
The scream
About Samer Abu Hawwash
About Robin Moger
About Raed Wahesh
Other Banipal Books titles

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.7.2025
• Illustrationen: Raed Wahesh
• Übersetzer: Robin Moger
• Zusatzinfo: 10 paintings and 1 author photo, all black and white
• Verlagsort: Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: City • Corpses • Crime • Diaspora • Failure • Genocide • Girl • Grief • History • Innocence • Killer • Land • Looking • massacre • Maze • Nightmares • Pain • People • Ruins • Scream • Threshold • war
• ISBN-10: 1-913043-51-7 / 1913043517
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913043-51-3 / 9781913043513