{"product_id":"9780894100956","title":"The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry","description":"\"It is, quite simply, very important to see all these poems together still.... Reading [\u003cem\u003eThe Palestinian Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e] we learn a great deal about Palestine and about ourselves as human beings.\"—Stephen Watts, \u003cem\u003eBanipal\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The poems in this powerful bilingual collection range from the rhetorical lyricism of Tawfiq Zayyad to the complex, cosmic imagery of Walid al-Halis, from the romantic idiom of Salma al-Jayyusi to the edgy, convoluted style of Tawfiq Sayigh, all evoking Palestine, the never-forgotten homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rich variety of the work is explored in Abdelwahab Elmessiri's extensive introduction and further reflected in the Arabic-language versions that accompany each selection. Opening with Mahmud Darwish's \"The Roses and the Dictionary\" and Samih al-Qasim's \"To Najib Mahfuz,\" the collection is organized around six themes: aesthetics of the revolution, elegies, love of Palestine, steadfastness, resistance, and victory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther poets represented include Laila 'Alush, 'Abd al-Latif 'Aql, Fawzi el-Asmar, Mu'in Basisu, Ahmad Dahbur, Yusuf Hamdan, Ahmad Husayn, Rashid Husayn, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Salim Jubran, Nazih Khayr, Kamal Nasir, 'Abd al-Karim al-Sab‘awi, Mayy Sayigh, and Fadwah Tuqan. The book also includes biographical notes and a selected bibliography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Three Continents Press Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019881627888,"sku":"9780894100956","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780894100956_p0.gif?v=1763856649","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780894100956","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}