George Abraham ๐ ุฌูุฑุฌ ุฅุจุฑุงููู Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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George Abraham ๐ ุฌูุฑุฌ ุฅุจุฑุงููู on X
Poet | @NorthwesternU MFA+MA | Editor @Mizna_ArabArt | ๐ BIRTHRIGHT (@buttonpoetry) & ๐ต๐ธ poetry anthology (@haymarketbooks) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/ูู

The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
Cj Hauser
(5+6/31) this past weekend, I've been vibing in and out of CJ Hauser's The Crane Wife + Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, as part of my multi-genre #sealeychallenge riff โค Can't wait to spend more time with both of these beyond August! Truly unforgettable opening chapters to both! https://t.co/NjEWVbJxw0
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Surge
Etel Adnan
"So mountains are languages and languages are mountains. We speak both." From SURGE by Etel Adnan https://t.co/9Yfo1SZwWZ
Paperback, 2018
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
Lars Horn
(5+6/31) this past weekend, I've been vibing in and out of CJ Hauser's The Crane Wife + Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, as part of my multi-genre #sealeychallenge riff โค Can't wait to spend more time with both of these beyond August! Truly unforgettable opening chapters to both! https://t.co/NjEWVbJxw0
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Divine Comedy: Inferno/Dante
Dante
Question for Twitter literary friends: what's a good translation of Dante's divine comedy that ppl recommend? Looking to re-engage with the text for more creative reasons than critical reasons, so I'm open to less traditional translations!
Paperback, Mass Market, 2005
$5.95$2.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Golden Ax
Rio Cortez
I really cannot stop thinking about Rio Cortez's Golden Ax & the speculative histories these poems are engaged with. An unforgettable 2022 poetry book I will surely be returning to for a while https://t.co/ZvXjO4W8CE
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Best Barbarian: Poems
Roger Reeves
"What are you loyal to other than death? To you, the dead, and what is not dead in your death" From Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves https://t.co/q9DeuN9YzU
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Like We Still Speak
Danielle Badra
Danielle Badra's Like We Still Speak is one of the most formally inventive poetry debuts I've ever read. The way this collection holds grief & contrapuntal & whole book's arc into Arabic? Exquisitely crafted -- this v queer & immaculate book deserves infinitely more hype tbh https://t.co/QAJFiKPcXZ
Paperback, 2021
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Enter Ghost
Isabella Hammad
Just finished Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad & let me tell y'all i am WRECKED ๐ญ this book made me feel every damn thing & I'm so glad to travel across the world with it & good God does she know how to stick the landing! with the Parisian that makes 2/2 unforgettable endings ๐ญ
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Muscle Memory
Kyle Carrero Lopez
(17/31) up next for #TheSealeyChallenge is Kyle Carrero Lopez's Muscle Memory -- phewwww every single poem in this chapbook ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ https://t.co/A8zUVws8WM
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Ossuaries
Dionne Brand
(7/31) my next #sealeychallenge read was Dionne Brand's Ossuaries. There aren't enough words in the universe to do justice to this book - just read it. Cannot wait to become a hermit this winter break reading her collected works cover to cover once it drops ๐ญ https://t.co/Sd9YUlJOIX
Paperback, 2010
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book