Description
Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa-she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience.
With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa’s exile from Haifa to his family’s current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical and relentless horror of the Nakba.
El-Kurd’s debut collection definitively shows that the Palestinian struggle is a revolution, until victory.







Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems (Everyman Pocket Poets)
Playing House
This Is Yarrow
The Adulterer's Tongue
The Visitations
Annotations
The Book of Love & Loss
Comic Poems
Hansel and Gretel
Being Alive
Poems
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Song of Kieu: A New Lament Nguyen Du
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Somewhere Else Entirely
Soemps
Counting Backwards
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
The Claims Office
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots
Love Is a Place