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Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
Ruth Padel
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Description for Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
Paperback. Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, this book includes poems that address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102.
'Making is our defence against the dark...'
Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel’s powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern music , is made and broken. An ancient synagogue survives attacks, a Palestinian boy in a West Bank refugee camp learns capoeira, and a guide shows us Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity during a siege. At the heart of the book are Christ’s last words from the Cross.
Uniting this moving collection is the common ground shared by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780701188160
SKU
V9780701188160
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel is a prize-winning poet, Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Zoological Society of London, and first Resident Writer at Somerset House, London. Her collections include Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and more recently Darwin: A Life in Poems, shortlisted for the ... Read more
Reviews for Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
There are points where one feels Padel is a poetic Daniel Barenboim. It is inlaid poetry... as if Padel were embroidering a tapestry. Each poem turns out to be an instrument and Padel knows how to play. Her command of register is masterly… There is no doubting Padel's accomplishment, her poems stand tall partly because she tends to rise about ... Read more