Diaspo/Renga

by Deema K. Shehabi and Marilyn Hacker

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Jewish Studies. In 2009, prompted by the Israeli siege of Gaza, Palestinian- American poet Deema Shehabi and Jewish-American poet Marilyn Hacker started a correspondence. It took the form of responding to each other's poems. They continued their poetic dialogue by email until 2012. The result was a sequence of renga called DIASPO/RENGA. The two poetic voices are beautifully meshed together, so that it actually reads...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907320423
• ISBN13: 9781907320422
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Holland Park Press
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.