Product Description: “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 humor, and unflinching honesty...read more

Product Description: Taha Muhammad Ali is one of the leading poets on the contemporary Palestinian literary scene. He writes in a forceful, direct style, with disarming humor and unflinching, at times, painful, honesty -- the poetry's apparent simplicity and homespun truths concealing the subtle grafting of classical Arabic and colloquial forms of expression...read more