BORDER WISDOM

BORDER WISDOMPoetry. Winter Editions, 2023. Paperback, 112 pages. 7. 95" x 5. 12" From the press: 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

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a playful blurring of public and private life

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asking what’s left where memory is absent

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the secular divine and the stuff of a lived life shift come into shifting focus

insisting always and again that these connections matter—to you

This delicate book weaves an unprecedented braid of poetry

Illustrated by Melissa Sweet