[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Copper Canyon Press publishes Arabic translation; announces poet's U.S. tour

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Copper Canyon Press is pleased to announce the publication of So What: New
and Selected Poems 1971-2005 by Palestinian poet and fiction writer Taha
Muhammad Ali. 

So What is the first American publication of Muhammad Ali's career, and the
first Arabic translation ever published by Copper Canyon Press. The book,
which Publishers Weekly calls "timely and affecting," has the Arabic script
facing the English translation.  

"During this time of conflict, the publication of a bilingual Arabic book
like So What takes on an especially poignant meaning for us," explains
Copper Canyon's Executive Editor Michael Wiegers. "It's an unignorable book.
We hope to humanize the news coming from the Middle East, and Taha's poetry
does that, and more."

In late September Muhammad Ali will fly from Nazareth to New Jersey and,
accompanied by his translator Peter Cole, embark on reading tour throughout
the United States. His first stop will be as an international headliner at
the Dodge Poetry Festival. In addition to headlining at the U.S.'s most
renowned poetry festival, Muhammad Ali will read at an urban church, a
poetry center, a university, and for students in a rural town:

September 28 - October 1 
Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Stanhope, NJ 
http://www.grdodge.org/poetry/main.htm 

October 3 at 7:00 pm 
Poets House, New York, NY 
http://www.poetshouse.org/ 

October 5 at 3:30 pm & 7:30 pm 
San Francisco State Poetry Center, San Francisco, CA 
http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/ 

October 7 at 7:30 pm 
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA 
http://www.saintmarks.org 

October 8 at 7:00 pm 
Wheeler Theater, Port Townsend, WA 
http://www.centrum.org 

October 11 at 7:30 pm 
Chapters Bookstore, Washington, DC 
http://www.chaptersliterary.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp 

To order So What, or for more information about these events, visit:
<http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/tahatour/>
www.coppercanyonpress.org/tahatour/ 

Note:  We encourage you to forward this notice to friends, family, and
colleagues who may be interested in So What and/or attending one of Taha
Muhammad Ali's readings.

Warning 

Lovers of hunting, 
and beginners seeking your prey: 
Don't aim your rifles 
at my happiness, 
which isn't worth 
the price of the bullet 
(you'd waste on it). 
What seems to you 
so nimble and fine, 
like a fawn, 
and flees 
every which way, 
like a partridge, 
isn't happiness. 
Trust me: 
my happiness bears 
no relationship to happiness. 

-Taha Muhammad Ali 

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Maurya Simon

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Department of Creative Writing
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