Poems of a Palestinian Boyhood

Reja-e Busailah

Poems of a Palestinian Boyhood in brown sans serif type over an image of two figures in a field overlooking a city from a distance. One of them faces away toward the city and leans their right hand on a rifle while the other one sits under the tree and gazes past the camera into the distance.
Spread of the poem 'Bilal' that stretches over both pages in several stanzas.
A spread of the book showing one poem ending on the left side and the beginning of 'Just Around the Corner' on the right.
Publisher:
Smokestack Books
In his ninetieth year, Reja-e Busailah looks back on growing up in a small Palestinian town in the 1930s until the turbulent upheaval of 1948, when over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes by the Israelis, and the author was forced to join the Death March from Lydda. Although blind since infancy, Busailah recalls with stunning detail a boyhood shaped by disability, education, family and friends, British soldiers and Zionist settlers. Poems of a Palestinian Boyhood is an extraordinary book: unapologetic, unflinching, raw and beautiful.
Year
2019
Length
150 pages
Cover
Softback
Binding
Perfect binding
Dimensions
13 x 20 cm.

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