So What: New & Selected Poems 1971-2005 - Brossura

Taha Muhammad Ali

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1852247924 ISBN 13: 9781852247928

Casa editrice: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

Born in rural Galilee, Muhammad Ali was left without a home when his village was destroyed during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Out of this history of shared loss and survival, he has created art. His poems portray experiences ranging from catastrophe to splendour, all the while preserving an essential human dignity.

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Recensione:

Taha Muhammad Ali speaks with an emotional forthrightness and unflinching honesty that at times reminds me of the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, at times of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. He writes in a literary Arabic grounded in the vernacular and rooted in local custom... He has developed a style that seems both ancient and new, deceptively simply and movingly direct. --Edward Hirsch, Washington Post

In Muhammad Ali's world, what appears to be placid can suddenly become disconcerting.... He is a beguiling storyteller who maintains a tone of credibility and lucidity without diluting the mysterious or distressing aspects of his tale. By avoiding commonplace response to everyday experience [he] has written poems that are fragile and graceful and fresh. --John Palatella, The Nation

Taha Muhammad Ali's patient, insistent and often beautiful iterations of who he is and what is what are as compelling and evocative as the faces and places that any reader has himself or herself loved...the poet's vision of experience is equally applicable to Arabs and Jews, kings and paupers, the quarter of the world s population that is Chinese, and the other threequarters as well. --Ha'aretz (Israel)

In Muhammad Ali's world, what appears to be placid can suddenly become disconcerting.... He is a beguiling storyteller who maintains a tone of credibility and lucidity without diluting the mysterious or distressing aspects of his tale. By avoiding commonplace response to everyday experience [he] has written poems that are fragile and graceful and fresh. --John Palatella, The Nation

Taha Muhammad Ali's patient, insistent and often beautiful iterations of who he is and what is what are as compelling and evocative as the faces and places that any reader has himself or herself loved...the poet's vision of experience is equally applicable to Arabs and Jews, kings and paupers, the quarter of the world s population that is Chinese, and the other threequarters as well. --Ha'aretz (Israel)

L'autore:

Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the village of Saffuriyya, Galilee. At 17 he fled to Lebanon with his family after the village came under heavy bombardment during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. A year later they slipped back across the border and settled in Nazareth, where he has lived ever since. An autodidact, he owns a souvenir shop now run by his sons near Nazareth's Church of the Annunciation. In Israel, in the West Bank and Gaza, and in Europe and in America, audiences have been powerfully moved by Taha Muhammad Ali's poems of political complexity and humanity. He has published several collections of poetry and one volume of short stories.

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• Editore: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1852247924
• ISBN 13: 9781852247928
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Redattore: Peter Cole