{"product_id":"you-must-live-new-poetry-from-palestine-paperback","title":"You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSherah Bloor\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTayseer Abu Odeh\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJorie Graham\u003c\/b\u003e (Guest Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bilingual anthology of poems from Palestine (2023-2024), \u003ci\u003eYou Must Live\u003c\/i\u003e attests to existence in the face of suppression. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBearing witness to the realities of the Palestinian genocide, \u003ci\u003eYou Must Live\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eYou Must Live\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eYou Must Live\u003c\/i\u003e sounds as an urgent call to the global community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTayseer Abu Odeh\u003c\/b\u003e is a Palestinian-Jordanian writer and translator. Among other outlets, his writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review, Arab Studies Quarterly, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, \u003c\/i\u003e and Harvard Divinity School's \u003ci\u003ePeripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound.\u003c\/i\u003e He serves as an international advisor on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and as a judge for writing competitions, including the Jubilee Institute's 2022 award for creative writing. Abu Odeh is the recipient of several awards that have funded language, social activism, and literature study in Japan and the United States. He has also received a visiting scholar fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, and recognition for his outstanding contributions to research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, from which Abu Odeh received a PhD in English literature and criticism in 2016. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherah Bloor\u003c\/b\u003e is a South African poet and scholar. Her first poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Gathering, \u003c\/i\u003e an epic in cantos, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in fall 2026. She is currently working on a second collection, tentatively titled \u003ci\u003eArchives of the Free World.\u003c\/i\u003e Having studied philosophy and social theory in Australia, she is completing a doctorate at Harvard University in philosophy of religion on the medical history of the mystical and poetic imagination. Bloor is also the editor-in-chief of Harvard Divinity School's literary and arts journal, \u003ci\u003ePeripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard University Press). Her own poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eChicago Review, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Dialogist, Lana Turner, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Paperbark, \u003c\/i\u003e among other magazines.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 7.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 23, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731257749811,"sku":"9781556597206","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NTrAMdgaDC9781556597206.webp?v=1763852215","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/you-must-live-new-poetry-from-palestine-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}