Wrong Winds A Sand Book

Wrong Winds A Sand BookAhmad Almallah When genocide is the question, can the answer be anything but wrong? In Wrong Winds, written during the first months of Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, Palestinian American poet Ahmad Almallah converses with the screams echoing throughout the West. Traversing European cities, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. Through a continuous unsettling of words

In Slips of the Mind

In You Can Be the Last Leaf

het is het gebied waar de dichter _ en niet alleen hij _ vrees voor heeft

contrasting against the harsh reality of exile

begin je toch te twijfelen

all too officially

is een grote literaire gebeurtenis

In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris

Reaching toward the “ghost companions in the thicket” and to the beloveds who still “pulse with activity

notes explaining its literary and historical references

These poems sing for mortal creatures

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