The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Reader of Resistance Poetry Helen Ivory violence and forgiveness in an

violence and forgiveness in an uncompromising style

one where revelatory restlessness is underpinned by predicaments and realities which work to complicate the vistas of the interpersonal

Its thirty-one areas

William Blake to Warsan Shire

fully appropriate to the dark-age we now seem to be on the brink of living through

The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Reader of Resistance Poetry Helen Ivory violence and forgiveness in anCollected and translated by A. M. Elmessiri Poetry has long been Palestines most vital art form a space where memory is safeguarded and resistance given voice. Spanning a century of upheaval and endurance, The Palestinian Wedding brings together twenty one major poets in a powerful bilingual anthology. From the charged lyricism of Tawfiq Zayyad to the expansive imagery of Walid al Halis; from the romantic cadences of Salma al Jayyusi to the profound