This is a very strong poetry collection. However, don‘t read it if you‘re triggered by rape, violence, drugs or eating disorders. It is extremely intense, but very well written. I liked it, but I will never reread it. #poetry
This is a very strong poetry collection. However, don‘t read it if you‘re triggered by rape, violence, drugs or eating disorders. It is extremely intense, but very well written. I liked it, but I will never reread it. #poetry
A powerful collection of poetry by a Palestinian-American poet as she reflects on a year in her life. The poems highlight the theme of displacement, not just of being of Palestinian descent, but being a woman, being a lover and a wife, being American. Highly recommended.
I was impressed with the poetic nature of Alyan‘s novel Salt Houses so I was really interested in her new poetry collection. The poems here twist around themselves, unable to find an anchor in the body, in addiction, in middle America, or in the Middle East. It reminded me of Porochista Khakpour‘s excellent memoir Sick with that feeling of displacement. I didn‘t quite feel that all the poems went together as a collection, though they are all good.