Description
In his second book of poems, Ahmad Almallah seeks a language that captures the afterlives of the mother tongue. This collection blurs the borders between languages, between the living and the dead, between presence and absence.
The poems of BORDER WISDOM break and mourn physical borders at the same time. Here the exilic idea of a return to a home is expressed in the daily return to the blank page in search of a poem. In these returns the body brushes against the past and, as Hart Crane puts it, taps into "that memory all things nurse."
Author: Ahmad Almallah
Publisher: Winter Editions
Published: 11/01/2023
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.19w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781959708063
ISBN10: 1959708066
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
- Poetry | Middle Eastern
- Poetry | American | General