A Palestinian poet, Ibrahim Nasrallah is among the foremost
poets of his generation. In this collection, Nasrallah describes
the suffering of the Palestinians not through a personal lens, but
through a universal context. He observes life with a natural human
tendency toward a love that can heal, transcend, and transform the
pain and sorrow of human experience.
"Taste"
There's the dewy taste of seas and clouds in the dust, the taste
of the expanse and the rain, of plains, mountains, humans, of
feminity, love, and intrepid oranges, of childhood and saffron, of
living in my mother's heart, of travel, and of your soul and
mine.But my beloved trees steal toward the sourceto taste it in
solitude, before any of us
Ibrahim Nasrallah was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1954, and raised
in a refugee camp. After working as a teacher and a journalist, he
became vice president of Darat Al-Funoun, Jordan's most prominent
art and cultural center. He has written thirteen poetry collections
and eleven novels, as well as works of literary criticism. He is
also a painter and a photographer.
Omnia Amin was born in Cairo, Egypt. She is an author,
translator, and professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at
Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Rick London lives and works in San Francisco. His most recent
publication is the poetry collection The Materialist (Doorjamb
Press, 2008).
"The poet Ibrahim Nasrallah has absorbed both the 'bloody
sorrow' of humanity and 'the steady radiance / at the heart of the
world, ' that bi-level core of experience which cannot be separated
from the sociopolitical. His poems manifest a bountiful and
beautiful poetics, and they run a fever. They get under your skin.
This is poetry to be read and reread for how it feels"--Marvin
Bell"A tragicomic quotidian essence pervades these poems, and
palpable echoes of Zbigniew Herbert's words are easily heard.
Nasrallah's poems are a welcome translation. They expand and shape
our vision of Palestinian poetry's rightful place in world
literature."--Fady Joudah
"It is to be hoped that this little volume will start a trend,
and that Nasrallah will sooner than later acquire a status in the
Anglosphere commensurate with his status in the Arab world...until
each of his 10 collections of verse have been
translated--preferably bilingually--our view of this humane
modernist will remain severely restricted. None of this detracts
from the debt we owe Curbstone for making this introduction to
Nasrallah available to the Anglophone reader. This plucky little
press has set a standard that is now up to major publishing houses
to emulate."--The Electronic Intifada
"A people in constant conflict, Rain Inside brings a Palestinian
poet's work to the world for English speakers to embrace for the
first time...Simple and straightforward with the emotions set
forth, Nasrallah inspires the reader with the resilience of the
Palestinian spirit and the universal essence in all of us. Rain
Inside is a top pick for world poetry collections."-Midwest Book
Review, Wisconsin Bookwatch
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