Strangers in Light Coats Relief poetry is her weapon –

poetry is her weapon – "these migrant poems from all languages

Ted Hughes

een intense verveling die tot weltschmerz leidt

this is a book that will resonate with anyone concerned with identity

Strangers in Light Coats Relief poetry is her weapon –Ghassan Zaqtan Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of the most important poets writing in Arabic. Since the publication of his first collection in 1980, Zaqtan's presence as a poet has evolved with the same branching and cumulative complexity as his poems an invisible system of roots insistently pushing through the impacted soil of political and national narratives. Strangers in Light Coats