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You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine

by Sherah Bloor

Poetry from Palestine in Arabic and English

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Poetry from Palestine in Arabic and English

Gathering poems from Gaza and the West Bank written in 2023–2024, this bilingual anthology brings together voices living in Palestinian territory, translated from Arabic. The collection presents poetry as witness to suppression and the realities it names as genocide, while resisting a single frame for its speakers. Its range includes love letters to the landscape, elegies for people and homes, prayerful and theatrical pieces, humor, and declarations oriented toward the future. Across these forms, the poems engage questions of political struggle, individual experience, and collective life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary Palestinian poetry and writing from Gaza and the West Bank.
  • Readers seeking a bilingual Arabic-English poetry anthology.
  • Readers interested in poetry that engages political realities, place, loss, and collective experience.

Themes

Witness and existence under suppressionPalestinian landscapes and homesElegy, remembrance, and lossIndividual and collective experiencePolitical expression and visions of the future

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Book overview

A bilingual anthology of poems from Palestine (2023-2024), You Must Live attests to existence in the face of suppression.

Bearing witness to the realities of the Palestinian genocide, You Must Live is a bilingual anthology of recent poetry from Gaza and the West Bank. Translated from Arabic and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, this collection gathers the voices of poets currently living in Palestinian territory, most of whom have never left. Yet the poems in You Must Live refuse to cast their speakers as perpetual victims. Diverse voices and styles shine throughout--powerful, prayerful, theatrical, and even humorous--as poets write love letters to the landscape, elegies for martyrs and homes, and proclamations for the future. Negotiating the interplay between aesthetics and politics, the individual and the collective, You Must Live sounds as an urgent call to the global community.

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