Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry John Pikoulis

Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry John PikoulisAgainst barbarity, wrote the celebrated Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1942 2008), poetry can resist only by cultivating an attachment to human fragility, like a blade of grass growing on a wall as armies march by. A Blade of Grass brings together, in English and in Arabic, new work by poets from the Occupied West Bank and Gaza, from the Palestinian diaspora and from within the disputed borders of Israel. Including poems by Maya Abu Alhayyat,

strange and imaginative

It is about our politics

the first systematically organised library in the ancient Middle East

It then considers in detail his life and work as a gentleman farmer from 1787

and from four previous collections: From Cookie to Witch is an Old Story (1987)

No be your trusty interactive guide to the coming revolution: a whirring

Tatyana Retivova

This book stands as both a fascinating work of non-fiction and an elegant and accomplished volume of poems

"Potterland" as Peter Stead terms it

Barbara Board was there when the bombs went off

until his death in 1803

deal with difficult material – elegies for lost friends for instance – while still remaining somehow life-affirming