My happiness bears no relation to happiness
Subtitle: a poet's life in the Palestinian century
By: Adina Hoffman.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780300141504
Subjects: ʻAlī, Ṭāhā Muḥammad; Poets, Palestinian Arab -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude: Bir el-Amir; title: Saffuriyya I: Map of a vanished town. Prehistory. If not camels. Black hand, white paper; title: Saffuriyya II: The window is open. Home front. What if. Battle days. What happened; title: Lebanon: Going. Leavings; title: Reina: Present, absent; title: Nazareth I: After the flood. Like water and air. Sparks. Compensation, contagion, consumption. Friends. Lives of the poets. A leap outside; title: Nazareth II: Where. Homeland and suitcase. Landslides. The evening wine of ancient sorrow. Fooling the killers. Inside out. Difficult simplicity. Work hard, fly right. The place itself.