Something about living /
It's nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestine's historic suff...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Akron, Ohio :
University of Akron Press,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Akron series in poetry.
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| Summary: | It's nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestine's historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will and the gentle delights we embrace to survive that violence. Khalaf Tuffaha's elegant poems sing the fractured songs of Diaspora while remaining clear-eyed to the cause of the fracturing: the multinational hubris of colonialism and greed. This collection is her witness to our collective unraveling, vowel by vowel, syllable by syllable. |
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| Physical Description: | 81 pages : portrait ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781629222738 1629222739 |