{"product_id":"water-to-water-gaza-renga-9781623715823","title":"Water to Water: Gaza Renga","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poetry collaboration in the call-and-response form of Renga by two award-winning poets during the genocide in Gaza. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2009, prompted by the Israeli siege of Gaza, poets Marilyn Hacker and Deema Shehabi started a correspondence. It took the form of responding to each other's poems. They resumed their poetic dialogue by email after Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheir project involved an alternate call and response between them in the tradition of the Japanese renga form, each poet picking up a word, phrase, or image from the poem preceding. The result is a fascinating poetic conversation. The two poetic voices are beautifully meshed together, so that it actually reads as one long poem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poetry is very rich in imagery, and these images stay with you, as do feelings the poems generate, for example, of unrest, of being in exile. Television and social media show you the pictures in the streets, this poetry takes you into the homes and minds of people. You can read it very much between the lines, and therefore it seems to speak to people about their own experiences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWater to Water: Gaza Renga\u003c\/i\u003e is a dignified celebration of humanity in and among atrocities. Although triggered by events in Gaza, it weaves in other conflicts past and present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator, and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York. Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece, which won the National Book Award, \u003ci\u003e Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGoing Back to the River\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2010, she received the PEN\/Voelcker Award for Poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeema K. Shehabi is a Palestinian American poet and editor. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThirteen Departures from the Moon \u003c\/i\u003eand the co-editor (with Beau Beausoleil) of \u003ci\u003eAl-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she received NCBR's recognition award. She is also the winner of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize in 2018 and a recipient of Best of the Net nomination in 2021 as well as several Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and her work has been translated into Arabic, French, and Farsi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Interlink Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690726293778,"sku":"9781623715823","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a69fc37e-2641-4128-98ed-2036a77391e5.jpg?v=1761745382","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/water-to-water-gaza-renga-9781623715823","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}