This collection spans geographies of war, homelessness, homemaking, longing, and hope as it travels through Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian, American and other landscapes. Informed by depth of experience and a resilient humanism, these poems seek to transform landscapes of devastation to geographies of light. Meena Alexander writes about this book, "Out of the dispersal of the Palestinian people comes a voice, delicate, tender, bearing witness to brutal loss, as well as the exquisite pulse of joy, a woman's voice trying to make sense of what it means to be at home in this world."
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This collection spans geographies of war, homelessness, homemaking, longing, and hope as it travels through Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian, American and other landscapes. Informed by depth of experience and a resilient humanism, these poems seek to transform landscapes of devastation to geographies of light. Meena Alexander writes about this book, "Out of the dispersal of the Palestinian people comes a voice, delicate, tender, bearing witness to brutal loss, as well as the exquisite pulse of joy, a woman's voice trying to make sense of what it means to be at home in this world."
These poems were written over a span of two decades, during which I moved between countries and cultures, seeking always for a space I could call home. Now I understand that home is in the writing - and in the connections we make.