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A highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan’s work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time.

Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of the most important poets writing in Arabic. Since the publication of his first collection in 1980, Zaqtan’s presence as a poet has evolved with the same branching and cumulative complexity as his poems—an invisible system of roots insistently pushing through the impacted soil of political and national narratives.

Strangers in Light Coats is the third collection of Zaqtan’s poetry to appear in English. It brings together poems written between 2014 and 2020 drawn from six volumes of poetry. Catching and holding the smallest particles of observation and experience in their gravity, the poems sprout and grow as though compelled, a trance of process in which fable, myth, and elegy take form only to fall apart and reconfigure, each line picked apart by the next and brought into the new body.


Table of Contents
I Do Not Know the Way to Aleppo
The Road to the Lakes
Speak Stranger, Speak
When We Lost the War
Going To Listen to My Father’s Miracles
Do Not Call to Me with Your Wide Eyes

Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems,

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      Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
      Published 5 November 2023
      ISBN-13 9781803092386
      978-1803092386
      ISBN-10 1803092386
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan’s work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time.

      Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of the most important poets writing in Arabic. Since the publication of his first collection in 1980, Zaqtan’s presence as a poet has evolved with the same branching and cumulative complexity as his poems—an invisible system of roots insistently pushing through the impacted soil of political and national narratives.

      Strangers in Light Coats is the third collection of Zaqtan’s poetry to appear in English. It brings together poems written between 2014 and 2020 drawn from six volumes of poetry. Catching and holding the smallest particles of observation and experience in their gravity, the poems sprout and grow as though compelled, a trance of process in which fable, myth, and elegy take form only to fall apart and reconfigure, each line picked apart by the next and brought into the new body.


      Table of Contents
      I Do Not Know the Way to Aleppo
      The Road to the Lakes
      Speak Stranger, Speak
      When We Lost the War
      Going To Listen to My Father’s Miracles
      Do Not Call to Me with Your Wide Eyes

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