Author: Hasib Hourani
Publisher: Prototype
Paperback
One of our books of the year 2024!
So says: The tension between a rock and its flight, between ground and air, between the resistance of the Intifada in the gesture of the thrown rock, and the devastation of genocidal Israeli occupation in the unending fall of rubble, is the motive force of this stunning debut poetry collection, an epic that is, geologically, both compressed and constantly shifting. Written in seven chapters, it brings the reader into the page as both an unstable landscape and confined space, finding both flux and moments of dazzling focus. Like Layli Long Soldier in Whereas, Hourani uses repetition to embody the structuring relentlessness of the occupation, as he cites its operations of surveillance and policing, and to refigure it through his unforgettable language.