"Taha Muhammad Ali speaks with an emotional forthrightness. . . . He has developed a style that seems both ancient and new, deceptively simple and movingly direct."--"The Washington Post"""
Taha Muhammad Ali is a revered Palestinian poet whose work is driven by vivid imagination, disarming hu[...]
Born in rural Galilee, Muhammad Ali was left without a home when his village was destroyed during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Out of this history of shared loss and survival, he has created art. His poems portray experiences ranging from catastrophe to splendour, all the while preserving an essent[...]