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New and Selected Poems 1971 - 2005
Copper Canyon Press
September 2006
On Sale: September 1, 2006
280 pages
ISBN: 1556592450
EAN: 9781556592454
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Fiction Poetry
"Taha Muhammad Ali speaks with an emotional forthrightness.
. . . He has developed a style that seems both ancient and
new, deceptively simple and movingly direct."-The Washington
Post
Taha Muhammad Ali is a revered Palestinian poet whose work
is driven by vivid imagination, disarming humor, and
unflinching honesty. As a boy he was exiled from his
hometown, but rather than turning to a protest poetry of
black-and-white slogans to convey this loss, he has created
art of the highest order. His poems portray experiences that
range from catastrophe to splendor, each preserving an
essential human dignity. Neither music
fame nor wealth,
not even poetry itself,
could provide consolation
for life's brevity,
or the fact that King Lear
is a mere eighty pages long, and comes to an end,
and for the thought that one might suffer greatly
on account of a rebellious child.
So What will include Arabic en face and introductions by
co-translators Gabriel Levin and Peter Cole. Muhammad Ali
will be one of the international poets featured at the 2006
Dodge Poetry Festival, and he will embark on a reading tour
of the United States in the fall of 2006.
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