Eating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Boatwhistle Books It will dispel the romantic

It will dispel the romantic images of Welsh poets as bards or druids and blow away any preconceived mists of Celtic twilight

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Atlantic Drift develops a dialogue between English-speaking traditions that haven't always spoken enough to each other enough and publishes some of the most exceptional poetry and poetics written in the twenty-first century

Eating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Boatwhistle Books It will dispel the romanticEating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh offers a stunning portrait of life in the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, where Qasmiyeh was born. The poems examine even the harshest aspects of the camp with tenderness, pondering existential questions about time, family, language and identity. A mothers blurry photograph, a fathers sharpened knife, blood stirred into watery lentils and other glimpses into Qasmiyehs upbringing enrich this raw and profound