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Before There Is Nowhere to Stand: Palestine Israel: Poets Respond to the Struggle
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Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9780983997580
Publisher: Lost Horse Pr
Published: Jun 19 2012
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
Appalled by the violence of Israel's Operation Cast Lead against Gaza in 2008-09, Joan Dobbie and her niece Grace Beeler, descendants of Holocaust survivors, issued a call for poems by writers of Palestinian or Jewish heritage . . . for an anthology that strives for understanding . . . in the belief that poetry can create understanding and understanding can dull hatred.
This book is a tribute to resourceful imaginations. Its purpose is to give readers an occasion to perceive the aspirations and passions of those whose lives have been affected by the struggle--in Joseph Conrad's words, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
The poems are arranged in seven sections, each dealing with an attribute or phase of the Palestine-Israel struggle. When possible, selections alternate between Jewish and Arab authors, effecting dissonance in subject, emphasis, and attitude--an uneasy multiculturalism.
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