Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Voices from the fringes: Search for home

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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