Love and Resistance

Love and Resistance is a book of translated poems by Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani. The book's introduction chronicles Mr. Qabbani's life and explains the background, the social climate, and the circumstances from which each stage of his poetry emerged. The translated poems are selected for their breadth of representation, their influence in the Arab world, and their poetic prowess. The book's first section includes eleven love poems; the second has nine political poems. The translated poems are supplemented with footnotes to explain words or names in their historical and cultural context.