The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser
PBS Wild Card Autumn 2021 Maria Stepanova Her song-like poems draw on

Her song-like poems draw on years of experience of bookkeeping and manual work in industry

from the Afterword to this volume

/ dying huddled together – / these floral tributes’

in which the interplay of etymologies

The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser <br> <b> PBS Wild Card Autumn 2021</b> Maria Stepanova Her song-like poems draw onBy 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 York after 9 11, and an extraordinarily composed examination of what it means to carry in the body the echoes of what came before, Almontaser's polyvocal