Heaven Looks Like Us (eBook, ePUB)

Palestinian Poetry
Redaktion: Abraham, George; Hindi, Noor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An anthology of contemporary poetry connecting Palestinians across generations, languages, and borders.
Poetry has always served as a mode of resistance in Palestinian culture. In defiance of dispossession and decades of military siege, of a nakba that never ended, of historical and cultural obfuscation, of unrelenting violence and thousands of martyred people, the "power to narrate," as Edward Said wrote, remains a necessary tool for self-determination. The poems collected here reclaim that power, bridging borders, languages, and generations to forge new conversations around resistance and liberation.
As Palestinian history remains haunted by exile, violence, and grief, so, too, are the poems in this anthology. And yet, editors George Abraham and Noor Hindi present these realities alongside other themes that are also true: queer and feminist perspectives, eco-poetry, meditations on love and time, and lineages of protest. This anthology dares to imagine a future beyond a nation-state for Palestinian people everywhere. Contributors include Refaat Alareer, Mahmoud Darwish, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mohammed El-Kurd, A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, Tarik Dobbs, and many other voices, both established and ascending.
Heaven Looks Like Us is a battle-cry against the annihilation of a people. It's also a love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free, free Palestine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888904091
• Artikelnr.: 72350193

Autorenporträt

Noor Hindi is a Palestinian-American poet. Her debut collection of poems, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow (Haymarket Books 2022), was an honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Heba Abu Nada, Not Just Passing
 
OUR BAGS ARE ALWAYS READY
Carolina Ebeid, Palestine the Metaphor
Hala Alyan, Ancestry
Dalia Taha, The Man and His Girlfriend Who Argued
All of Last Night and Now Stand at a Pharmacy in R
City to Buy Medication for Headaches
Olivia Eilas, Our Bags are Always Ready
Mourid Barghouti, A Small Eternity
Najwan Darwish, The Appearances of Taha Muhammad
Ali
Summer Farah, POEM FOR AKKA BEFORE &
AFTER SETTLERS TORCH PALESTINIAN HOMES,
MAY 2021
Zena Agha, Elegy for Return
Sarona Abuaker, “my dear, don’t be afraid, it’s nothing,
it will pass”
Mohammed El-Kurd, Laugh
Hind Shoufani, ID
REVOLUTION IS FEMININE
Rewa Zeinati, other wives and veils and villages
Hajer Mirwali, 3aib
Aiya Sakr, and in the beginning, she stepped out of the
grove
Summer Awad, Belqassim’s Wives
Mandy Shunnarah, if jesus was fat
Jessica Abuggattas, Litany for my Father
Rema Ghassan Shbaita, Of Being Laid Bare
Noor Hindi, This Rubble is Mine
Janine Mogannam, Dead Sea Existential
A.D. Lauren-Abunasser, Aphantasia
Annemarie Jacir, landscape
Olivia Elias, Light
Violence by Zaina Alsous
HOW I KILL SOLDIERS
Jehan Bseiso, Prayer
Dareen Tatour, Women’s Chant
Lisa Suhair Majaj, Do you see them?
Refaat Alareer, Over the Wall
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Variations on a Last Chance
Hasib Hourani, Untitled
Micaela Raen, Silence on Fire
Rimona Afana, nar
Laila Shikaki, 2 years in, 5 days out
Mahmoud Darwish, The Eternity of the Cactus
Naomi Shihab Nye, Separation Wall
Nadia Said, Do you think God ever puts on a hat and
fleece lined coat,
Samih Al-Qasim, End of a Talk with a Jailer
Sarona Abuaker, My Mother’s Third Imprisonment
Ahlam Bsharat, How I Kill Soldiers
Fadia Antabli, Letter to my Killer
Najwan Darwish, Who Remembers the Armenians
JD Harlock, There Will Be No Funeral
Refaat Alareer, If I Must Die
Omar ZahZah, a poem joins the resistance
A POEM HANGS IN BALANCE
Fargo, Craft Talk
Yasmeen El-Hasan, An Archive
Tarik Dobbs, For Inside ‘48
Rasha Abdulhadi, Finished with Peace
Samah Fadil, prongs into the nation
Ahmad Diab, UNRWA
Yousef Qasmiyeh, Anthropologists
Layla Goushey, Anthology of Ethnological Shifts
Lina AlSharif, A poem hangs in balance
Asmaa Azaizeh, Reflection
Jaye Nasir, Good Night
Sheikha Hlewa, Nakba
Dareen Tatour, In the Camp
Suheir Hammad, Jabaliya
Ghayath Almadhoun, Black Milk
IS THE WHOLE AIR THE PATH OF THE GAZELLE
Issam Zineh, The Last Poem I Write
Jaye Nasir, Pastoral
George Abraham, the ghosts of the dead sea are rising
Dina Abdulhadi, Genesis
Ashraf Fayadh, on the virtues of oil over blood
Jaye Nasir, Last Rites
Eman Ghanayem, Soils
Tariq Alarabi, Carob Tree
Deema Shehabi: Ghazal: The Sun
Yahya Ashour, 4 poems
Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Emperor
Fady Joudah, The Onion Poem
Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 Varieties of Gazelle
I LOVED YOU WITHOUT EVIDENCE
A.D. Lauren-Abunasser, Postimmigration Pastoral
Farah Baraqawi, Ants
Issam Zineh, Coefficients of Friction
Maya Abu-AlHayyat, Ordinary Grief
Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Nablus Street
Ashraf Fayadh, Prayers of Longing
Lenna Jawdat, Atmosphere
Deema Shehabi, Ghazal: I
Samer Budair, requiem for a memory of a mediterranean
moon
Suheir Hammad, Princes and Queens
Shereen Naser, To My Daughters
Nadia Said, When Mama Says Allah Yerda 3liky
Hanan Hindi, Mama’s closet
Tariq Luthun, I GO TO THE BACKYARD TO PICK
MINT LEAVES FOR MY MOTHER
Zeina Azzam, Palestine: Art in our Breath
Hala Akkawi, Letter to Palestine
Yusuf Saleh, Daughter of the Arabs
leena aboutaleb, Of a Coming World
BITTER ENGLISH
Fargo Tbakhi, Of
Sara Saleh, Punctuation as Organized Violence
Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English
Samer Budair, home // ال†وجود†ع†مد
Heba Hayek, Full Interview
Nathalie Handal, :3
Priscilla Wathington, Hungriest Organ
Aziza Okab, an ode to the city i live in that will never be
home
Nadeen Alalami, Ya Quds
Mosab Abu Toha, Palestine A to Z
Sara Abou Rashed, In Arabic, the Word for “War” Is
Similar to “Love”
Yahya Hassan, CHILDHOOD
Bassam Jamil, the voice
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Autobiography of Fear
WHAT I WANT IS NEVER CALLED NATION
Ghayath Almadhoun, WE
Ghassan Zaqtan, Biography in Charcoal
leena aboutaleb, art exhibition — West Bank girl on fire
Rimona Afafna, white
Maen Hammad, The Mundane
Jen Siraganian, Self-Portrait of Second Version
Kaleem Hawa, Learned Helplessness
Jess Abughattas, Dinner Party
Zaina Alsous, cinematography
Hala Alyan, Wife in Reverse
Rewa Zeinati, Rooms
Mohammed El-Kurd, Anti-Biography
Maya Abu-AlHayyat, Mahmoud
Mira Mattar, Affiliation
Mejdulene Shomali, Stone Heart
Carolina Ebeid, Punctum/Metaphor
BEIT FOR TIME
Mahmoud Darwish, Don’t Write History as Poetry
Emily Khilfeh, AL-EIZARIYA
Kaleem Hawa, Jericho II
Sarah Saleh, The museum of Falasteen
Nathalie Handal, Riflessi
Suja Sawafta, Pompeii
Angie Mazakis, Fulmination
Micaela Sahhar, The New Jerusalem
Fady Joudah, Palestine TX
Hajer Mirwali, Open Guide of Palestine
Rasha Abdulhadi, The Dead Palestinian Father
George Abraham, Unarcheology of Father
Yousef Qasmiyeh, The Camp is a Bait for Time
Sara Abou Rashed, No More Years of Nakba
Sharif Elmusa, Drawings
Ghassan Zaqtan, Everything as it Was
Islam Khatib, one day the hauntings will stop
PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM
Veera Sulaiman, Manifesto
Samih Al-Qasim, He Whispered before he Took his Last
Breaths
Ibrahim Nasrallah, Palestinian
Mohammed Khader, Between the rivers and the seas
Zaina Alsous, Cento of Women in the Sun
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Letter to June Jordan in September
Mosab Abu Toha, On Gaza Seashore
Samer Abu Hawwash, From the River to the Sea
Summer Farah, PORTRAIT OF ME AS BREAD BAKING IN JERUSALEM
Lina AlSharif, Afterlife: A Palestinian Narrative
Mira Mattar, from And most of all I would miss the
shadows of the tree’s own leaves cast upon its trunk by
the orange streetlight in the sweet blue darks of spring
Noor Hindi, The World’s Loneliest Whale Sings the
Loudest Song
Fargo Tbakhi, PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: PROPHECIES (CRUISING JERUSALEM)
Endnote
Contributor & Translator Biographies
Acknowledgments