Never Mind: Twenty Poems And A Story (Ibis Editions)

Never Mind: Twenty Poems And A Story (Ibis Editions)

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Taha Muhammad Ali is one of the leading poets on the contemporary Palestinian literary scene. Born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya, he fled to Lebanon, together with most of the inhabitants of his village, during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. A year later he slipped across the border with his family and settled in Nazareth, where he has lived ever since. The Sa...more
Paperback, 112 pages
Published December 1st 2000 by Small Pr Distribution
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Peter
Some wonderful poems including ' Thrombosis in the Veins of Petroleum'
Alicia
Wonderful, interesting collection. Word choice and the use of the poetic line is near perfect. Of course the problem of translation exists, but whether or not we're reading what Ali intended in Hebrew or not, but results are excellent.
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