On Arab American Women’s Anti-War Poetry
I. Witnessing “This is weightThis is I did not know they made smoke like oceanThis is aluminum dusk and sulfur cloudsThis is sabah-al-kherMorning of luckMorning of cinderThis is steam and ruin and flashlit bodiesThis is counting your lossThis is losing count.” These are the first few lines of Hala Alyan’s poem “Diaspora” written in response […]
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I. Witnessing “This is weightThis is I did not know they made smoke like oceanThis is aluminum dusk and sulfur cloudsThis is sabah-al-kherMorning of luckMorning of cinderThis is steam and ruin and flashlit bodiesThis is counting your lossThis is losing count.” These are the first few lines of Hala Alyan’s poem “Diaspora” written in response
