{"product_id":"strangers-in-light-coats-selected-poems-2014-2020-paperback","title":"Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014-2020 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGhassan Zaqtan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobin Moger\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan's work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of the most important poets writing in Arabic. Since the publication of his first collection in 1980, Zaqtan's presence as a poet has evolved with the same branching and cumulative complexity as his poems--an invisible system of roots insistently pushing through the impacted soil of political and national narratives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrangers in Light Coats\u003c\/i\u003e is the third collection of Zaqtan's poetry to appear in English. It brings together poems written between 2014 and 2020 drawn from six volumes of poetry. Catching and holding the smallest particles of observation and experience in their gravity, the poems sprout and grow as though compelled, a trance of process in which fable, myth, and elegy take form only to fall apart and reconfigure, each line picked apart by the next and brought into the new body. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGhassan Zaqtan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a novel, and a play, \u003ci\u003eThe Narrow Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, which was honored at the 1994 Cairo Festival. His verse collection \u003ci\u003eLike a Straw Bird It Follows Me\u003c\/i\u003e, translated by Fady Joudah, was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2013, and he was nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in both 2014 and 2016. \u003cb\u003eRobin Moger\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of Arabic prose and poetry based in Cape Town, South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 9.21 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765203960096,"sku":"9781803092386","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8b87aa844d809d44590ec07bbae6f7d2.webp?v=1780263611","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/strangers-in-light-coats-selected-poems-2014-2020-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}