The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry

by Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri

The poems in this powerful bilingual collection range from the rhetorical lyricism of Tawfiq Zayyad to the complex, cosmic imagery of Walid al-Halis, from the romantic idiom of Salma al-Jayyusi to the edgy, convoluted style of Tawfiq Sayigh, all evoking Palestine, the never-forgotten homeland. The rich variety of the work is explored in Abdelwahab Elmessiri's extensive introduction and further reflected in the Arabic-language versions that accompany...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894100963
• ISBN13: 9780894100963
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Three Continents Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"