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Gregory Orfalea is a journalist, editor, and poet. He is the author of The Capital of Solitude, a book of poems. He is also the author of Arab Americans: A History, Messengers of the Lost Battalion: The Heroic 551 st , and Turning of the Tide at the Battle of the Bulge. He was director of the Center for Writing at Pitzer College, where he taught creative nonfiction and the short story.

Sharif S. Elmusa is a widely-published poet, editor, and an esteemed translator of Arabic poetry. His poetry collection Flawed Landscape: Poems 1987 – 2008 was published by Interlink to great acclaim.

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The 40th anniversary edition of a celebrated poetry anthology, with selections from the work of twenty poets ranging from Kahlil Gibran and Ameen Rihani to Naomi Shihab Nye, Etel Adnan, and more.

Arab American poetry is an especially rich, people-involved, passionate literature that has been spawned, at least until recently, in isolation from the

American mainstream. This highly-praised anthology reflects the renaissance in the literature of what may be the latest ethnic community to assert itself. Twenty poets are represented in this collection. The editors include a brief biography of each poet, together with a selection of each poet’s work. The short bios offer fascinating glimpses into Arab American literary history.

It starts with Kahlil Gibran and Ameen Rihani and includes celebrated contemporaries who write in Arabic or English or both. Contributors include:

Kahlil Gibran, Ameen Rihani, Jamil Holway, Mikhail Naimy, Elia Abu Madi, Etel Adnan, Naomi Shihab Nye, D.H. Melhem, Samuel Hazo, Joseph Awad, Eugene Paul Nasser, H.S. (Sam) Hamod, Jack Marshall, Fawaz Turki, Doris Safie, Ben Bennani, Sharif Elmusa, Lawrence Joseph, Gregory Orfalea, and Elmaz Abinader.