“Taha Muhammad Ali speaks with an emotional forthrightness. . . . He has developed a style that seems both ancient and new, deceptively simple and movingly direct.”—The Washington Post Taha Muhammad Ali is a revered Palestinian poet whose work is driven by vivid imagination, disarming humor, and unflinching honesty. As a boy he was exiled from his hometown, but rather than turning to a protest poetry of black-and-white slogans to convey this loss, he has created art of the highest order. His poems portray experiences that range from catastrophe to splendor, each preserving an essential human dignity.
 Neither music fame nor wealth, not even poetry itself, could provide consolation for life’s brevity, or the fact that King Lear is a mere eighty pages long, and comes to an end, and for the thought that one might suffer greatly on account of a rebellious child.
 So What will include Arabic en face and introductions by co-translators Gabriel Levin and Peter Cole. Muhammad Ali will be one of the international poets featured at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival, and he will embark on a reading tour of the United States in the fall of 2006.

So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005 (Arabic Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Taha Muhammad Ali

Poetry

Copper Canyon Press

So What? : New and Selected Poems 1971

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

Taha Muhammad Ali is one of the leading poets on the contemporary Palestinian literary scene. He writes in a forceful, direct style, with disarming humor and unflinching, at times, painful, honesty -- the poetry's apparent simplicity and homespun truths concealing the subtle grafting of classical Arabic and colloquial forms of expression. NEVER MIND is the poet's first collection in English. Translated by Peter Cole and Gabriel Levin.

Never Mind: Twenty Poems And A Story

Peter Cole

Ali, Taha Muhammad

Ibis Editions

Wāqiʻ Wa-al-takhyīl

Al-ahlīyah Lil-nashr Wa-al-tawzīʻ

‏الأهليةّ للنشر والتوزيع،‏

Kāmil, Riyāḍ

‏كامل، رياض

Al-ahlīyah, الأهلية،

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