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A review by e_flah
Birthright by George Abraham
"my mind is a country / that sets itself ablaze"
Birthright was a poetry collection that frequently made me feel as if I didn't know enough about poetry to enjoy it. Many of the forms used for the poems seemed as though they were part of a broader conversation within the genre that went over my head as an interested, non-expert. My favorites of the collection were "IX Mistranslations of Ash (Haifa, 2016)" and "Ode to Mennel Ibtissam singing Hallelujah on The Voice (France), translated in Arabic."
C/W:suicidal ideation, queerphobia, death of a loved one, war violence
Birthright was a poetry collection that frequently made me feel as if I didn't know enough about poetry to enjoy it. Many of the forms used for the poems seemed as though they were part of a broader conversation within the genre that went over my head as an interested, non-expert. My favorites of the collection were "IX Mistranslations of Ash (Haifa, 2016)" and "Ode to Mennel Ibtissam singing Hallelujah on The Voice (France), translated in Arabic."
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