Before There Is Nowhere to Stand - Palestine | Israel: Poets Respond to the Struggle (Paperback)

Appalled by the violence of Israel's Operation Cast Lead against Gaza in 2008/2009, Joan Dobbie and her niece Grace Beeler, descendants of Holocaust survivors, issued a call for poems by writers of "Palestinian or Jewish heritage. . . for an anthology that strives for understanding . . . in the belief that poetry can create understanding and understanding can dull hatred."

This book is a tribute to resourceful imaginations. Its purpose is to give readers an occasion to perceive the aspirations and passions of those whose lives have been affected by the struggle--in Joseph Conrad's words, "to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."

The poems are arranged in seven sections, each dealing with an attribute or phase of the Palestine-Israel struggle. When possible, selections alternate between Jewish and Arab authors, effecting dissonance in subject, emphasis, and attitude--an uneasy multiculturalism.

General

Imprint:	Lost Horse Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2012
First published:	June 2012
Editors:	Grace Beeler • Joan Dobbie
Introduction by:	Alicia Ostriker
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-0-9839975-8-0
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-9839975-8-6
Barcode:	9780983997580

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