Eating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Boatwhistle Books especially those of women

especially those of women

humorous verses to some of the great poem sequences of the Nazi Occupation period when Desnos was an active resistant

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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Eating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Boatwhistle Books especially those of womenEating 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