Bathhouse and Other Tanka witch Abu Al-Hayyat has created a

Abu Al-Hayyat has created a richly textured portrait of Palestinian interiority—at once wry and romantic

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grouped under the titles The Keeper of Sheep

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NourbeSe Philip has written that 'Sift is a formally intricate work that demonstrates a brilliant engagement with the etymological trails (and trials) of language and translation and their interpenetration with empire

Bathhouse and Other Tanka witch Abu Al-Hayyat has created aTatsuhiko Ishii (trans. Hiroaki Sato) Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being, writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka. For many decades now, Ishii has turned the classical poetic form of the tanka into its own innovative contemporary tradition. What was originally a five line 5 7 5 7 7 syllable verse form Ishii writes in one line,