Lines of Fire is a searing anthology of poems drawn from Lotus and The Call—two revolutionary journals of the Afro-Asian Writers’ Movement. Against the backdrop of empire, censorship, and exile, poets like Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mahmoud Darwish, Muʿin Bseiso, Eustache Prudencio, and many others reach beyond their lifetimes to answer the cries of the present.
Edited in Beirut, in the shadow of genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon, this collection insists that poetry is not a passive witness, but a living force. These are not echoes of a distant past. They are songs of struggle, solidarity, and survival, stretching from Bandung to Beirut, from Accra to Gaza.
They speak not just of the path of resistance in the night, but of a victorious dawn.
