Name: Flower by Nardine Taleb
Brand: martinafruit.com
SKU: 20815574792
Price: 16.00 USD
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Rating: 4.0558 (12 reviews)

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Flower by Nardine Taleb"What happens to an Egyptian girl in the diaspora when she cannot fin herself "in [her] aunties"? The speakers in warda thread the collection with audacious declarations from "I will never get married" to "I can become anything" even as they contend with turmoil, joy, shame, and hope. Growth arrives in wardawith thorns in tow. But the resulting contradictions are met bravely, without resistance. "Like everything veiled," Taleb asserts, "I want to be

Captain America

or performance—Hanif Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry

self-portrait before & after my body

Blind stitching on sleeves and bottom hem

I was standing at the cliff of my own life

a pathbreaking and defining work of modern literature

a sermonous voice crying out to be heard in the noise

Its title comes from the back of MTA receipts

Wallace Stevens

Praise for What to Miss When

but it only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have employed over the ages

The speaker’s disownment raises questions about the challenges of using parents as poetic subjects