George Abraham 🍉 جورج إبراهيم Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Poet | @NorthwesternU MFA+MA | Editor @Mizna_ArabArt | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (@buttonpoetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (@haymarketbooks) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو

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 ❤ 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
Optic Subwoof
Douglas Kearney
I cannot recommend Optic Subwoof by Douglas Kearney enough -- absolutely one of the most compellingly written craft books, but also, filling such important gaps in aesthetic + political thought right now. Cannot think of a better resource for anyone interested in visual poetics!
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bitter English
Ahmad Almallah
"because this english tongue owes me // a language" From Bitter English by Ahmad Almallah https://t.co/HVhfVuh3w0
Paperback, 2019
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Affiliation
Mira Mattar
(18/31) up next for #TheSealeyChallenge is UK Palestinian poet Mira Mattar's Affiliation which is, & I do not use this word lightly, a masterpiece. (& yes, icyw dear reader, the poem had me like 😱😱😱😱 for 23 pages straight) Another excerpt in Granta: https://t.co/A0Iny2x95i https://t.co/5T0LIG8jPv
Paperback, 2021
$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Paraíso: Poems by
Jacob Shores-Argüello
(3/31) Next is Sewanee beloved Jacob Shores-Argüello's Paraíso, @CantoMundo Poetry Prize winner! Every breath in this book is so intentionally shaped. Books like this make me wanna work even harder in my poems, on a syllabic level. So grateful to learn from my friend's work! https://t.co/nVUR2zEbOv
Paperback, 2017
$16.95$8.48 + 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 😭 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 😭
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
Dionne Brand
"I am recklessly here, to move forward is as the same as staying and going back, there / is no forward, even that is optimistic" From Dionne Brand's Nomenclature for the Time Being https://t.co/wBY6oTx63v
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems
Fady Joudah
Other recent work folks can check out in the meantime: - @Mizna_ArabArt's Palestine issue https://t.co/FqkhW4G9v7 - @LKTuffaha & Fady Joudah's Poems from Palestine series in the Baffler: https://t.co/lJ2g2uE4HV
Paperback, 2018
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book