Border Wisdom Astrid Alben

Border Wisdom Astrid AlbenAhmad Almallah 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 daily return to the blank page in search of a poem. In these returns

His poetry has appeared in Chicago Review

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