Water to Water: Gaza Renga
Marilyn Hacker and Deema K. Shehabi
Two poets answer one another across distance in a book-length call-and-response shaped by Gaza, exile, and shared witness.
Marilyn Hacker and Palestinian American poet Deema K. Shehabi began exchanging poems in 2009, prompted by the siege of Gaza, and resumed their dialogue by email after October 2023. Their method draws on renga: each poet takes a word, phrase, or image from the piece before it and makes the next response.
Read together, the alternating poems become a sustained conversation rather than two separate sequences. Gaza is present through news and distance, but the exchange keeps returning to homes, minds, memory, and the experience of living in exile while images of destruction arrive through a screen.
Details
- Published by Interlink Books, Fall 2025
- Paperback ISBN 978-1-62371-582-3
- 141 pages
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Connected in the archive
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on a related subject — 18 records
Filed near each other — the same Mandate district, or the same uncommon subject tags.
- A Long Walk from Gaza
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Shared tags: "gaza", "exile".
- 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "gaza".
- After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "exile".
- Edward Said: The Question of Palestine
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "exile".
- Edward W. Saidإدوارد سعيد
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "exile".
- Elias Sanbarإلياس صنبر
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "exile".
- and 12 more
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“Water to Water: Gaza Renga.” Library, FALASTEEN.AI. Accessed 22 August 2026. https://falasteen.ai/library/water-to-water/.- MLA
“Water to Water: Gaza Renga.” Library, FALASTEEN.AI, 2026, https://falasteen.ai/library/water-to-water/. Accessed 22 August 2026.- BibTeX
@misc{falasteen-water-to-water, title = {Water to Water: Gaza Renga}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/library/water-to-water/}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }