{"title":"Bookshop for Gaza","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"workshops4gaza.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/Screenshot_2026-03-11_at_10.15.57_AM.png?v=1773249373\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"107\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 20, 25); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; min-width: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-overflow: unset;\"\u003eWelcome to the Bookshop for Gaza page. All proceeds from books purchased through this page are currently being donated to \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/thesameerproject\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Sameer Project\u003c\/a\u003e, a donations-based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"🇵🇸\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/abs-0.twimg.com\/emoji\/v2\/svg\/1f1f5-1f1f8.svg\" title=\"Flag of Palestinian Territories\" class=\"r-4qtqp9 r-dflpy8 r-k4bwe5 r-1kpi4qh r-pp5qcn r-h9hxbl\" style=\"display: inline-block; margin-left: 0.075em; margin-right: 0.075em; height: 1.2em; width: 1.2em; vertical-align: -20%; color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; 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These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage and inviting the reader to see the human lives lived beyond the headlines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Aside from wheat, essential ingredients for making bread are water and salt. And in Lena Tuffaha’s luminous poems, she provides the necessary words to feed our humanity. The poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWater \u0026amp; Salt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are fearless and frank. They speak of a place where a phone call announces doom and where ‘portraits find their frames.’ But always, despite the violence and war, in the music of Tuffaha’s poetry there is a clear summons, beckoning us to join in the feast of her language. These are poems that rise, surge, and stir us.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―Oliver de La Paz, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eRequiem for the Orchard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Arab-American poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s poems are both mirror and zaatar, sharing a clear-eyed picture of our sometimes-brutal world―as in the acid clarity of her ‘Running Orders’―and also feeding us from the harvest of possibility: “the song of zaatar simmering \/ in its native oil rises up \/ and time evaporates.’ Her auspicious debut \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWater \u0026amp; Salt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, named after the primal ingredients for slaking our thirst and satisfying our tongues, carries with it the aching wisdom of immigrants and mothers, whose lives are fraught with departure and carved by longing. Yet she turns the ominous language of border control into the tender music of trochaic hexameter: ‘You will need to state the reason for your visit,’ and encourages us travelers that ‘the story \/ is still being written and \/ our fractures aren’t done setting.’” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―Philip Metres, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA Concordance of Leaves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, winner of the Arab American Book Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42314895032343,"sku":"9781597090292","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/water-salt-cvr-website_1.jpg?v=1586491670"},{"product_id":"copy-of-alsous-zaina-a-theory-of-birds","title":"[B4G] Alsous, Zaina: A Theory of Birds","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Arkansas Press, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBonaparte and Darwish, Nazis and America, Picasso’s mistress and Columbus’s sirens. Also, dodo bird and nutmeg, placenta and carcass, and found maps––the interpretations of war. Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, selected by Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah. These poems wrestle with the intergenerational transference of trauma and the ecological disasters of militarism and colonization. What can one do for survival? How do birds fly when the sky ends? 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Thank you in advance for your patience. **\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJanuary: \u003c\/strong\u003eMemory for Forgetfulness, by Mahmoud Darwish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFebruary: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Theory of Birds\u003c\/em\u003e, by Zaina Alsous\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarch: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e[…]\u003c\/em\u003e, by Fady Joudah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eApril:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eChaos, Crossing\u003c\/em\u003e, by Olivia Elias\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eQuiet Orient Riot\u003c\/em\u003e, by Nathalie Khankan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJune:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eBirthright\u003c\/em\u003e, by George Abraham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJuly:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMap of Absence\u003c\/em\u003e, an anthology of Palestinian literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAugust:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eVOLO\u003c\/em\u003e, by Nathalie Handal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeptember:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThirteen Departures from the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e, by Deema K Shehabi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOctober: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalestinian\u003c\/em\u003e, Ibrahim Nasrallah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNovember\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cem\u003eThe Silence that Remains\u003c\/em\u003e, Ghassan Zaqtan\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDecember\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cem\u003eThe Moon that Turns You Back\u003c\/em\u003e, Hala Alyan\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpotlight on Palestinian Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCurated by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026amp; including original art by \u003cspan size=\"5\"\u003eHala Saleh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSubscribers to our \u003cstrong\u003e2024 Year in Poetry Monthly Subscription Service \u003c\/strong\u003ewill receive one book every month, beginning in January, featuring the work of Palestinian poets writing across an array of poetic forms and traditions. In addition, subscribers will be receiving a custom designed Tatreez (traditional Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery) bookmark to accompany our book selections. The bookmark design will incorporate traditional Tatreez motifs and patterns that express something related to the author, the book, or the topic. Tatreez motifs traditionally tell a story, and reflect the artist's connection to historical events, the land, flora and fauna, and phases of life. In addition, each month's subscription delivery includes a handmade booklet featuring short pieces by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Hala Saleh on that month's featured collection and their curatorial and design process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis monthly program will feature a mix of collections spanning poetic ages, original languages, and diverse styles. In other words: new books, books from eons ago, books in translation, and books that may challenge your expectations of what poetry is and can be. Ultimately, we’d love for our subscribers to find themselves, at the end of their subscription, with a handful of new favorites and a yearlong experience that pushes their boundaries as readers, igniting or affirming their love for the limitless pleasures found in a good book of poems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout our curator\u003c\/strong\u003e: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\u003cspan size=\"5\"\u003e is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her heritage is Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian and she is fluent in Arabic and English. She is the author of three books of poetry, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/tuffaha-lena-khalaf-water-salt?_pos=4\u0026amp;_sid=61f6ddc77\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWater \u0026amp; Salt\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003c\/em\u003eRed Hen Press), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award for Poetry, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/07-01-2023-tuffaha-lena-khalaf-kaan-and-her-sisters?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=61f6ddc77\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKaan and Her Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Trio House Press, July 2023), and \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/04-02-2024-tuffaha-lena-khalaf-something-about-living\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSomething About Living\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, National Book Award finalist (University of Akron Press, 2024).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan size=\"5\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout our artist\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hala Saleh is a Tatreez (traditional Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery) artist. 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