{"product_id":"so-what-new-and-selected-poems-1971-2005","title":"So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSo What: New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTaha Muhammad Ali\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781556592454\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCopper Canyon Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eArabic\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eBilingual\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Taha Muhammad Ali speaks with an emotional forthrightness. . . . He has developed a style that seems both ancient and new, deceptively simple and movingly direct.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaha 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeither music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003efame nor wealth, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003enot even poetry itself, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ecould provide consolation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003efor life's brevity, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eor the fact that\u003c\/i\u003e King Lear\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eis a mere eighty pages long, and comes to an end, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand for the thought that one might suffer greatly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eon account of a rebellious child.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSo What\u003c\/i\u003e will include Arabic \u003ci\u003een face\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005 | Taha Muhammad Ali | Paperback | 9781556592454 | New | Poetry 1588411","offer_id":48163666886808,"sku":"1588411","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/613b9wFhOCL.jpg?v=1771888467","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/so-what-new-and-selected-poems-1971-2005","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}