{"id":38000,"date":"2024-12-06T18:55:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T02:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=38000"},"modified":"2024-12-06T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T02:55:02","slug":"book-if-i-must-die-poetry-and-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/book-if-i-must-die-poetry-and-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71zsCca79nL._SY385_.jpg\" alt=\"If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"title\">If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose&nbsp;Hardcover \u2013 December 10, 2024<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Refaat-Alareer\/e\/B00S3E3P5C\/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\">Refaat Alareer<\/a>\u00a0(Author),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2?ie=UTF8&amp;field-author=Yousef+M.+Aljamal&amp;text=Yousef+M.+Aljamal&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books\">Yousef M. Aljamal<\/a>\u00a0(Compiler),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/If-Must-Die-Poetry-Prose\/dp\/1682196216#\">&amp;\u00a01\u00a0more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIf I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The renowned poet and literature professor Refaat Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongside his brother, sister, and nephews in December 2023. He was just forty-four years old, but had already established a worldwide reputation that was further enhanced when, in the wake of his death, the poem that gives this book its title became a global sensation. \u201cIf I Must Die\u201d is included here, alongside Refaat\u2019s other poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Refaat wrote extensively about a range of topics: teaching Shakespeare and the way Shylock could be appreciated by young Palestinian students; the horrors of living under repeated brutal assaults in Gaza, one of which, in 2014, killed another of his brothers; and the generosity of Palestinians to each other, fighting, in the face of it all, to be the one paying at the supermarket checkout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such pieces, some never before published, have been curated here by one of Refaat\u2019s closest friends and collaborators. This collection forms a fitting testament to a remarkable writer, educator, and activist, one whose voice will not be silenced by death but will continue to assert the power of learning and humanism in the face of barbarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Amazon.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose&nbsp;Hardcover \u2013 December 10, 2024 by\u00a0Refaat Alareer\u00a0(Author),\u00a0Yousef M. Aljamal\u00a0(Compiler),\u00a0&amp;\u00a01\u00a0more \u201cIf I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale.\u201d This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/book-if-i-must-die-poetry-and-prose\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38001,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions\/38001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}