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Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance

Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance

Aruri, Naseer
Aruri, Naseer
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ISBN13: 9798228931817
Publisher: Tantor
Published: Apr 21 2026
Language: English

In 1971, in the wake of George Jackson's killing by San Quentin prison guards, a poem entitled Enemy of the Sun was found among ninety-nine books in the revolutionary's cell. The handwritten poem came to be circulated in Black Panther newspapers under Jackson's name, assumed to be a vestige of his more than a decade long incarceration. But Jackson never wrote the poem; it was authored by the Palestinian poet Sameeh Al-Qassem and had been included in an anthology of the same title a year before Jackson's death. Originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance links twelve poets working in a poetics of refusal and of hope. In each poem is a whole life--joy, love, beauty, rage, sorrow, suffering--and in each life is a record of resistance: the traces of a people who refuse to leave their homeland, who time and again alchemize grief into principled struggle. In the intertwined histories of this book, and in the unyielding political edge of the poems themselves, is a long story of solidarity between oppressed peoples: from Palestine to South Africa to Algeria to Vietnam to the United States.

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