My Little Things: Images and Visions

By Ibrahim Saad and Lina Zarour

What possibly could any pen say to one who has set down his poetry in a language not his own? But that is not all. The vocabulary languagechosen by this poet for setting down his thoughtshas been the English language which, surely, must be a tongue almost as far removed, as could be, from the poets own native Arabic?

Little wonder that Ibrahim Saad, whose family was forced to flee to Gaza in Al Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948, has written his collection of poems with the anger and bitterness most of his people feel, running through them. Only suffering can lead to deep thoughtthose with easy lives mainly deal in surface thought and never have to look into the abyss.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jul 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496985712

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/07/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-8561-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-8571-2 (e)

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Contents

Introduction

I believe

Al Bahlool*

Arabian Knight

Blindness in Gaza

Dad and son tweet @ ‘AVALANCHE’

Frankenstein

Maz Maza

My Little Things

My Sun

Stuntman

Tears and blood

The Road to Istanbul

Words

Together into infinity

Introduction

Here is the pen, but it won’t move on. It is as stumped as I am.

What possibly could any