A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry

by Naomi Shihab Nye, Mahmoud Darwish, Deema K. Shehabi, et al.

'Against barbarity, ' wrote the celebrated Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008) 'poetry can resist only by cultivating an attachment to human fragility, like a blade of grass growing on a wall as armies march by.' A Blade of Grass brings together, in English and in Arabic, new work by poets from the Occupied West Bank and Gaza, from the Palestinian diaspora and from within the disputed borders of Israel. Including poems by Maya Abu Alhayyat,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 099576753X
• ISBN13: 9780995767539
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"