| Description |
xi, 97 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Poems. |
| Summary |
Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa -- she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical and relentless horror of the Nakba. El-Kurd's debut collection definitively shows that the Palestinian struggle is a revolution, until victory. |
| Contents |
Love is older than Israel / Aja Monet -- In Jerusalem -- Who lives in Sheikh Jarrah -- Born on Nakba Day -- THis is why we dance -- Girls in the refugee camp -- Bulldozers undoing God -- Smuggling Bethlehem -- A song of home -- Portrait of my nose -- Rifqa -- Wednesday -- 1948/1998 -- Fifteen-year old girl killeld for attempting to kill a soldier (with a nail file) or context -- No Moses in siege -- Things I cannot say -- Boy sells gum at Qalandiyaih -- Math -- War machines dress up as drag queens -- Elderly woman falls asleep on my shoulder -- Three women -- Laugh -- Kroger -- Autobiography -- Day is like butter -- Small talk -- Park benches with teeth -- No poetry in this -- And they leave and never leave -- Amal Hayati -- Anti-biography -- Why do you speak of the Nakba at the party -- Martyrs -- Crows -- Lice -- Where am I from Jerusalem -- Bush -- Biggest punch line of all time -- Sheikh Jarrah is burning. |
| Subject |
Palestinian Arabs -- Poetry.
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Statelessness -- Poetry.
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Jerusalem -- Poetry.
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Palestinian Nakba, 1947-1948 -- Poetry.
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Palestinian Arabs. (OCoLC)fst01051590
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Statelessness. (OCoLC)fst01131977
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Middle East -- Jerusalem.
(OCoLC)fst01216276
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Palestinian Nakba (1947-1948) (OCoLC)fst02033838
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| Chronological Term |
1947-1948
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Monet, Aja, 1987- writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781642595864 (paperback) |
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1642595861 (paperback) |
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9781642596601 (hardcover) |
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1642596604 (hardcover) |
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9781642596830 (electronic book) |
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1642596833 (electronic book) |
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