Something about Living
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The 87 Press
Publishing:4th Dec '25
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 4th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Winner of the 2024 US National Book Award for Poetry
Something about Living explores Palestinian life through the lens of language, revealing a legacy of obfuscation and erasure. What happens when language only permits ongoing disasters to be packaged neatly for consumption and subsequent disposal?
Something about Living is the brilliant third collection from acclaimed poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. It explores Palestinian life through the lens of language, revealing a legacy of obfuscation and erasure. What happens when language only permits ongoing disasters to be packaged neatly for consumption and subsequent disposal? Searing with insights from the perspective of a Palestinian in diaspora, Something About Living refuses to cede ground to nihilism and apathy, taking the reader through the difficult landscape of hope and futurity in the midst of an interminable, uncertain, and often devastating present.
Tuffaha’s most recent collection is essential reading. Something about Living should be in every classroom, every library. This is a rallying cry at its most lyrical, most poignant. I can’t say it enough: you need to read this book.
* The Poetry Question (Podcast) *This superb volume sings of those determined to fight for a fairer future.
* Publishers Weekly *In evoking historical episodes of slaughter, expulsion, and attempted erasure, Tuffaha neither isolates nor simply commemorates them. Instead, she exposes their perpetuation in the air and soil of the present day, as the state of Israel sustains and escalates a genocide against the Palestinian people.
-- Robin Myers * Poetry North We- Winner of George Ellenbogen Poetry Award 2025 (United States)
- Winner of National Book Award for Poetry 2024 (United States)
- Winner of Akron Poetry Prize 2022
ISBN: 9781068751561
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