A review by mentat_stem
The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems by Mohammed Sawaie

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I don't read much poetry. I picked this up to keep the Palestinian conflict forefront in my mind. I was struck by how the pain of loss surfaced in each poem, no matter the decade. A ton of Christian imagery used to describe a conflict largely seen as between Jewish and Islamic people. The biographical notes have a "kicked out because of political activism" refrain. Home and land and homeland. Keys and houses and farms and trees.