Enter World: Poems
Nov 2026 · Sold by Graywolf Press
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A Palestinian voice traces the silence living inside history and insists on the enduring beauty of the world
Writing from Ramallah, Dalia Taha captures her proximity to the Gaza genocide—the losses unspeakable and the destruction near total. In Enter World, poetry emerges as an answer to the violences of war, as a means to encounter and foster resilience. Taha’s lines bear witness to the atrocities in Palestine, but also reflect lyrically on beauty, justice, and humanity.
In Sara Elkamel’s spare and emotionally direct translation, each poem’s title begins with “enter,” an invitation to fill an empty stage, for a landscape to form. The poet’s world materializes: olive trees, hills, inscribed walls in prison cells. These images accrue into an intimate and mythic declaration of resistance through art, of beauty found amid terror. A world is captured, made permanent on the page, even as it is obliterated.
Writing from Ramallah, Dalia Taha captures her proximity to the Gaza genocide—the losses unspeakable and the destruction near total. In Enter World, poetry emerges as an answer to the violences of war, as a means to encounter and foster resilience. Taha’s lines bear witness to the atrocities in Palestine, but also reflect lyrically on beauty, justice, and humanity.
In Sara Elkamel’s spare and emotionally direct translation, each poem’s title begins with “enter,” an invitation to fill an empty stage, for a landscape to form. The poet’s world materializes: olive trees, hills, inscribed walls in prison cells. These images accrue into an intimate and mythic declaration of resistance through art, of beauty found amid terror. A world is captured, made permanent on the page, even as it is obliterated.
A Palestinian voice traces the silence living inside history and insists on the enduring beauty of the world
Writing from Ramallah, Dalia Taha captures her proximity to the Gaza genocide—the losses unspeakable and the destruction near total. In Enter World, poetry emerges as an answer to the vio...
About the author
Dalia Taha is a Palestinian poet and playwright based in Ramallah. She was a Banipal Visiting Author Fellow and won the 2025 Norwegian Dramatists’ Association’s Solidarity Award. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Brown University and teaches at Birzeit University.
Sara Elkamel holds an MA in arts and culture journalism from Columbia University and an MFA in poetry from New York University. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Field of No Justice and Garden City. She lives in Cairo.
Dalia Taha is a Palestinian poet and playwright based in Ramallah. She was a Banipal Visiting Author Fellow and won the 2025 Norwegian Dramatists’ Association’s Solidarity Award. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Brown University and teaches at Birzeit University.
Sara Elkamel holds an MA in ...
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