We Are Here to Stay (Paperback)

Paperback. Combining traditional Arabic verse-forms and free-verse, We Are Here to Stay some of his best-known poems about the Nakba, about life under military occupation, discrimination, imprisonment and land-seizures, as well as poems about family and love. Written with characteristic defiance, grace and wisdom.This bilingual selection of poems by Tawfiq Zayyad will join Smokestacks other poets from the Arab-speaking world Amir Darwish (Syria), Chawki Abdelamir (Iraq), Anna Greki (Algeria) and Palestinian poets Ghassan Zaqtan, Reja-e Busailah and Farid Bitar, as well as Smokestacks anthologies Poets and the Algerian War and A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry. A selection of poems in English and Arabic by Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-1994) Palestinian poet, Communist member of the Knesset and the elected mayor of Nazareth from 1975-1994. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.