11 best-selling poetry books like The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems by Mohammed Sawaie

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The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems

By: Mohammed Sawaie

4.48

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems gathers together works by a select number of Palestinian po…

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Cover of Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh

1. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more

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"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

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2. In the Presence of Absence

By: Mahmoud Darwish , محمود درويش , Sinan Antoon

4.36

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

"Darwish is to be read with urgency, in the night, when nothing else moves but his lines." —The Vil… read more

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  • poetry
"هل أبتعدت لتقترب أم اقتربت لتبتعد"

-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

"الحنين يكذب ولا يتعب من الكذب لأنه يكذب بصدق ."

-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

"Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third."

-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

"الحنين مسامرة الغائب للغائب , و التفات البعيد إلى البعيد ."

-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

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3. Palestine

By: None , Joe Sacco

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more

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4. A River Dies of Thirst: journals

By: Mahmoud Darwish , Catherine Cobham

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

"There are two maps of Palestine that the politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Nothing More to Lose by Najwan Darwish, Kareem James Abu-Zeid

5. Nothing More to Lose

By: Najwan Darwish , Kareem James Abu-Zeid

4.25

Format: 127 pages, ebook

Nothing More to Loseis the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear i… read more

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  • poetry

6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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7. Before the Next Bomb Drops

By: Remi Kanazi

3.31

Format: None pages,

we are the boat / returning to dock / we are the footprints / on the northern trail / we are the ir… read more

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8. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories

By: غسان كنفاني , None

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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9. Thought and Language

By: Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky

4.00

Format: 302 pages,

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10. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

By: Jehad Abusalim

4.70

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more

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  • poetry
  • anthologies
Cover of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

11. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • poetry
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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12. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

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  • poetry
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

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13. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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14. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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15. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

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  • poetry
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

Cover of What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh

16. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more

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17. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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18. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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19. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

By: Ruby Hamad

4.56

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more

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"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

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20. The Prospects

By: K.T. Hoffman

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more

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"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."

-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects

Cover of The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

21. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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  • poetry
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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22. Mother Country

By: Etaf Rum

4.19

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

A young Palestinian American woman comes to terms with the lessons imparted by her mother in an evo… read more

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Cover of Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar

23. Love Is an Ex-Country

By: Randa Jarrar

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this pro… read more

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"Westerns began to make sense. The hubris of white men began to make sense. For what was this landscape but a canvas to swing a dick around in?"

-Randa Jarrar, Love Is an Ex-Country

Cover of You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems by Maya abu Al-Hayyat

24. You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems

By: Maya abu Al-Hayyat

4.29

Format: 85 pages, Kindle Edition

Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two dec… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Wreaking Havoc (Demon Bound, #1) by Grae Bryan

25. Wreaking Havoc (Demon Bound, #1)

By: Grae Bryan

4.20

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Sascha has always felt powerless, the weak baby of a cruel family. But that’s fine. He has his look… read more

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26. Twenty-Ninth Year

By: Hala Alyan

3.91

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more

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  • poetry
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

Cover of Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun

27. Thirteen Months of Sunrise

By: Rania Mamoun

3.78

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

Thirteen Months of Sunrise is a collection of stories by the author, journalist, and activist, Rani… read more

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  • anthologies
Cover of The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems by Mohammed Sawaie

28. The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems

By: Mohammed Sawaie

4.48

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems gathers together works by a select number of Palestinian po… read more

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  • poetry
  • anthologies
Cover of Clean Finish (Goliaths of Wrestling, #2) by Lily Mayne

29. Clean Finish (Goliaths of Wrestling, #2)

By: Lily Mayne

4.48

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

LarkinLook, here’s the thing.I’m young, carefree, and my job as the assistant to Holt, manager and … read more

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30. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

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31. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

By: Isabella Hammad

4.74

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the P… read more

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