April is National Arab American Heritage Month and National Poetry Month. Celebrate both by picking up these poetry books written by just a few of the many amazing Arab American writers.
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An incisive poetic sequence that tracks the relationship between migration and complex traumas in this unsparing critique of the unjust conditions that brought us the global pandemic.
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This collection articulates the ongoing pathos of the Palestinian people, their continuous erasure from history, and their persistence both inside and outside of their ancestral lands.
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A poetry collection that explores alienation and identity in America through an immigrant’s lens.
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“Extratransmission” is a poetic critique of nationalism, patriarchy & gender embedded in an explosive & unapologetic trauma narrative.
This collection begins with stories of immigration and exile by following newcomers’ attempts to assimilate into American society. Editors Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally Howell have assembled emerging and established writers who examine notions of home, belonging, and citizenship from a wide array of communities, including cultural heritages originating from Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, and Yemen.
In “The Magic My Body Becomes,” Jess Rizkallah seeks a vernacular for the inescapable middle ground of being Arab American- a space that she finds, at times, to be too Arab for America and too American for her Lebanese elders.
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From the author of “The Arsonists’ City” and “The Twenty-Ninth Year,” a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the face of displacement and war.
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With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed.
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Lena Hkalaf Tuffaha’s poetry collection holds simultaneously the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest. She interweaves the suffering of Palestine, the challenges of living in a violent world, and the small delights through which we may survive that violence.
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A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good–a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father.
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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.