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In defiance of dispossession and decades of military siege, of a nakba that never ended, of historical and cultural obfuscation, of unrelenting violence and thousands of martyred people, the \"power to narrate,\" as Edward Said wrote, remains a necessary tool for self-determination. The poems collected here reclaim that power, bridging borders, languages, and generations to forge new conversations around resistance and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US\u003c\/em\u003e is a battle-cry against the annihilation of a people. As Palestinian history remains haunted by exile, violence, and grief, so, too, are the poems in this anthology. And yet, editors George Abraham and Noor Hindi present these realities alongside other themes that are also true: queer and feminist perspectives, eco-poetry, meditations on love and time, and lineages of protest. This anthology dares to imagine a future beyond a nation-state for Palestinian people everywhere. 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He was just forty-four years old, but had already established a worldwide reputation that was further enhanced when, in the wake of his death, the poem that gives this book its title became a global sensation. \"If I Must Die\" is included here, alongside Refaat's other poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRefaat wrote extensively about a range of topics: teaching Shakespeare and the way Shylock could be appreciated by young Palestinian students; the horrors of living under repeated brutal assaults in Gaza, one of which, in 2014, killed another of his brothers; and the generosity of Palestinians to each other, fighting, in the face of it all, to be the one paying at the supermarket checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuch pieces, some never before published, have been curated here by one of Refaat's closest friends and collaborators. 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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 in \u003ci\u003eYou Must Live\u003c\/i\u003e refuse 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, \u003ci\u003eYou Must Live\u003c\/i\u003e sounds as an urgent call to the global community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTayseer Abu Odeh\u003c\/b\u003e is a Palestinian-Jordanian writer and translator. 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