'Making is our defence against the dark...' Through images of
conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel's powerful new poems address
the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of
destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern music
, is made and broken. An ancient synagogue survives attacks, a
Palestinian boy in a West Bank refugee camp learns capoeira, and a
guide shows us Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity during a siege.
At the heart of the book are Christ's last words from the Cross.
Uniting this moving collection is the common ground shared by
Judaism, Christianity and Islam: a vision of human life as
pilgrimage and struggle but also as music and making. With care and
empathy, Ruth Padel suggests how rifts in the Holy Land speak to
conflict in our own hearts. 'We identify. Some chasm / through the
centre must be in and of us all.'
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