{"product_id":"so-what","title":"So What","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Taha Muhammad Ali speaks with an emotional forthrightness. . . . He has developed a style that seems both ancient and new, deceptively simple and movingly direct.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaha 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeither music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003efame nor wealth, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003enot even poetry itself, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ecould provide consolation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003efor life's brevity, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eor the fact that\u003c\/i\u003e King Lear\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eis a mere eighty pages long, and comes to an end, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand for the thought that one might suffer greatly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eon account of a rebellious child.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSo What\u003c\/i\u003e will include Arabic \u003ci\u003een face\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taha Muhammad Ali","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44816584998954,"sku":"9781556592454","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/so-what-9952466.jpg?v=1789040649","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/so-what","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}