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There is a sense of displacement to these poems as Almallah recounts the amusing, sad, and perilous moments of day-to-day living in exile. At the heart of Bitter English is a sense of loss, both of home and of his mother, whose struggle with Alzheimer's becomes a reflection of his own reality in exile. Filled with wit, humor, and sharp observations of the world, Bitter English brings a fresh poetic voice to the American immigrant experience.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49644190859537,"sku":"GOR013704326","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53361506025745,"sku":"CIN022664264XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022664264X.jpg?v=1751227749"},{"product_id":"border-wisdom-book-ahmad-almallah-9781959708063","title":"Border Wisdom","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.\"  \\\\  \"Almallah's writing is immensely relevant; we need his voice.\" --NAOMI SHIHAB NYA  \\\\  \"Ahmad Almallah observes the dust that rises when war and grief collide in the rubble of brief existences made briefer by geopolitical devastations. These poems honor the daily trembling and unexpected questions that accompany the losses of one's spaces of origin--one's mother, one's land, one's language. I won't lie and say that it is easy to read this unflinching work, these searing confrontations with the lividity and ferocity of grief. But I admire a poet who is unafraid to rise up and be a pallbearer, who is unafraid to point out the difficulty of holding in our memory what we would rather hold in our arms.\" --DIVYA VICTOR  \\\\  \"Reading this book, one comes to understand that one of the most astounding, paradoxical companions to our grief is precision. Via his very syntax, through the intermingling of silence and sigh, Ahmad Almallah creates a sober and tender and bitter account of a journey that is loss-of one's beloved, one's land, one's hope-and, according to his version of events, it is loss that nurtures, disciplines, and gifts the desire of writing.\" --POLINA BARSKOVA  \\\\  Poetry. Exile Literature. Memoir. Arab-American Literature. Palestine. Palestinian Authors. Border Studies. Multilingual Poetry. 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In Wrong Winds, written during the first months of Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, Palestinian-American poet Ahmad Almallah converses with the screams echoing throughout the West. Traversing European cities, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. Through a continuous unsettling of words and places, considering the broken voices of Western poetry (Eliot, Lorca, Celan among others), the poems in Wrong Winds discover the world again and form an impossible dialogue with the dead and dying.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51386800144657,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51386801291537,"sku":"NIN9781964499482","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51386803290385,"sku":"NGR9781964499482","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1964499488.jpg?v=1751029226"},{"product_id":"wrong-winds-book-ahmad-almallah-9781964499499","title":"Wrong Winds","description":"\u003cp\u003eAhmad Almallah's third collection considers the impossible task of being a Palestinian in the world today.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When genocide is the question, can the answer be anything but wrong? 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