The wild fox of Yemen : poems /
By turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective, always guided by faith and ancestry, Threa Almontaser's incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival. A love letter to the country and people of Yemen, a portrait of young Muslim womanhood in New Yo...
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Minneapolis :
Graywolf Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- I. Hunting girliness
- Stained skin
- Muslim girl with white guys, ending at the edge of a ridge
- Recognized language
- Etymology of hair
- Shaytan sneaks bites of my tuna sandwich
- Muslim with dog
- Dream interpretation [apricot]
- Pig flesh
- Portrait of this country
- When people are cursed
- Feast, beginning w/ a kissed blade
- II. Hunger wraps himself
- Guide to gardening your roots
- Operation restore hope
- Yemen rising as poorest country in the world
- Coffee Arabica as a maelstrom of endless aftershocks
- The snapping turtles in Ta'iz have beards
- Dream interpretation [fox]
- At the summit, he finds a nest
- Hidden bombs in my coochie
- Home security after 9/11
- My president asks me about redemption
- III. Heritage emissary
- I think the room w/ dim mirrors & an altar of aliens, waiting for a sign
- My father finds home through the birds
- Dream interpretation [sea]
- After running away from another marriage proposal
- I crack an egg
- Middle Eastern music
- Please take off your shoes before entering
- And that fast, you're thinking about their bodies
- Why I am silent about the lament
- Catasterism
- When white boys ask to see my hair
- Ode to bodega cats.