Before There Is Nowhere to Stand

Palestine Israel: Poets Respond to the Struggle

220 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Lyrik, Poesie Anthologien (verschiedene Dichter)
• ISBN: 9780983997580
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.06.2012
• Größe: 226 x 142 mm
• Verlag: Washington State University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Grace Beeler, Joan Dobbie