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  title info:
    title: Gaza
    sub title: the poem said its piece
  name:
    name part: Rabāḥ, Nāṣir
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Alcalay, Ammiel
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: Zghal, Emna
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: Al-Hilli, Khaled
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ara
  language:
    language term: ara
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 176 pages ; 16 cm.
  abstract: Born in Gaza in 1963, Rabah spent some of his formative years in Egypt, before returning to Gaza in his early twenties, where he has lived ever since. There, among the generations who built its neighborhoods and populate its villages, in a place of great natural beauty and vibrant cities, living under constant surveillance, military occupation, blockade, siege and regular attack, in a culture steeped in literary and spiritual tradition, Rabah developed his distinctively singular vision and poetics. This is Rabah's first book in English translation. The poems include a selection from three of his published collections, along with new poems written after October 2023, during the full-scale Israeli assault on Gaza. Throughout, we find a combination of irreverence and fidelity to tradition, a sense of surrealism infusing the depiction of everyday incomprehensibilities and an unsettling, delicate tenderness always on edge in an atmosphere of sensory inundation and emotional saturation. Rabah's poems can be raw and uninhibited by social or literary conventions, exploring and questioning one's relationship to divinity in absurd circumstances while confronting the sacred cows of his own society, along with the sometimes voyeuristic interest from those on the outside of it. His poetry constantly interrogates, sometimes playfully and sometimes in utter existential despair, the paradoxes and difficulties of expression and of writing itself. Nasser Rabah is a poet we have much to learn from. This is a bilingual edition and includes the original versions in Arabic.
  note: Nasser Rabah ; translated from Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled al-Hilli.
  note: Parallel text in Arabic and English.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rabāḥ, Nāṣir
    genre: Translations into English
  classification: PJ7960.A16 G3913 2025
  classification: 892.7/17
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Pocket poets ; 64
  identifier: 9780872869127
  identifier: 0872869121
  identifier: 2024047584
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241022
    record change date: 20260320162406.6
    record identifier: in00005695712