Rain Inside by Ibrahim Nasrallah - 9781931896528

Rain InsideAuthor(s): Ibrahim Nasrallah\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Curbstone Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Curbstone Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781931896528, 978-1931896528\nSynopsis\nA Palestinian poet, Ibrahim Nasrallah is among the foremost poets of his generation. In this collection, Nasrallah describes the suffering of the Palestinians not through a personal lens, but through a universal context. He observes life with a natural human tendency toward a love that can heal, transcend, and transform the pain and sorrow of human experience.\n\nTaste\n\nTheres the dewy taste of seas and clouds in the dust,\nthe taste of the expanse and the rain,\nof plains, mountains, humans,\nof feminity, love, and intrepid oranges,\nof childhood and saffron,\nof living in my mothers heart,\nof travel,\nand of your soul and mine.\nBut my beloved trees steal toward the source\nto taste it in solitude, before any of us