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You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine

PUBLISHER Copper Canyon Press (09/23/2025)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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A bilingual anthology of poems from Palestine (2023-2024), You Must Live attests to existence in the face of suppression.

Bearing witness to the realities of the Palestinian genocide, You Must Live is a bilingual anthology of recent poetry from Gaza and the West Bank. Translated from Arabic and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, this collection gathers the voices of poets currently living in Palestinian territory, most of whom have never left. Yet the poems in You Must Live refuse to cast their speakers as perpetual victims. Diverse voices and styles shine throughout-powerful, prayerful, theatrical, and even humorous--as poets write love letters to the landscape, elegies for martyrs and homes, and proclamations for the future. Negotiating the interplay between aesthetics and politics, the individual and the collective, You Must Live sounds as an urgent call to the global community.

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ISBN-13: 9781556597206
ISBN-10: 1556597207
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 320
Carton Quantity: 22
Product Dimensions: 7.30 x 0.90 x 9.10 inches
Weight: 1.45 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Price on Product, Bilingual
Country of Origin: US
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BISAC Categories
Poetry | Anthologies (multiple authors)
Poetry | Middle Eastern
Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
Dewey Decimal: 892.717
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025021577
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A bilingual anthology of poems from Palestine (2023-2024), You Must Live attests to existence in the face of suppression.

Bearing witness to the realities of the Palestinian genocide, You Must Live is a bilingual anthology of recent poetry from Gaza and the West Bank. Translated from Arabic and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, this collection gathers the voices of poets currently living in Palestinian territory, most of whom have never left. Yet the poems in You Must Live refuse to cast their speakers as perpetual victims. Diverse voices and styles shine throughout-powerful, prayerful, theatrical, and even humorous--as poets write love letters to the landscape, elegies for martyrs and homes, and proclamations for the future. Negotiating the interplay between aesthetics and politics, the individual and the collective, You Must Live sounds as an urgent call to the global community.

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