Taha Muhammad Ali is the author of four books of poetry in Arabic and a book of short stories. The Saffuriyya of his childhood has served as the nexus of his work, which is grounded in everyday experience and driven by a story-teller’s vivid imagination. A self-educated poet, in his youth he spent nights studying classical Arabic poetry, as well as the works of American and European poets
Born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1957, Peter Cole has published three collections of poetry. Cole has worked intensively on Hebrew literature, with special emphasis on medieval Hebrew poetry.
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