You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine [Paperback]

Bearing witness to the realities of the Palestinian genocide,You Must Liveis 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 inYou Must Liverefuse 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,You Must Livesounds as an urgent call to the global community.

Tayseer Abu Odehis a Palestinian-Jordanian writer and translator. Among other outlets, his writing has appeared inMichigan Quarterly Review, Arab Studies Quarterly, Journal of Postcolonial Writing,and Harvard Divinity School'sPeripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound.He serves as an international advisor on the editorial board ofThe Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studiesand 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.