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Four Cities by Hala AlyanWandering from Detroit to Haifa, Tripoli to Brooklyn, the poems of FOUR CITIES reveal the underbelly of cities, bearing witness to narratives of love, occupation and faith. These testimonies are harvested from displaced landscapes, histories and languages, revealing the unsettled lives of immigrants. Using urgent, haunting language, Alyan evokes the unlikely backdrop of Palestinian bazaars and Midwestern junkyards, policed checkpoints and boisterous

Iver writes

which led to publication in the United States

and oscillation are recurring features of the collection)

the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming

It may be true

intimate book radically reconsiders the cost of memory

observantly as a politically astute

” Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador

as time alternates between racing and standing still

" —The Poetry Foundation

Hirsch discovers the true meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts

as his daughter notes in her introduction