The poet for today’s National Poetry Month post is George Abraham,
a Palestinian American born in Jacksonville, Fla. I have to say that I don’t
find many of Abraham’s poems immediately accessible; I have to work to grasp
what they’re saying. “in which you are the emptiness they made of your palestinian/queerness”
is one of the more self-evident examples.
Abraham incorporates words not expressed into his poem, leaving
the reader to literally fill in the blanks. It’s a little like cloud pruning—wherein
the spaces between are the connective tissue for the parts that are filled. I
dunno—whaddaya think?
“in which you are the emptiness they made of your palestinian/queerness”
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