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Water & Salt
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's debut, Water & Salt, sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage. These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage and inviting the reader to see the human lives lived beyond the headlines.
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“grading this just for poetry and not for the content that inspired the poetry, it wasn’t really my style. tuffaha uses plenty of imagery and metaphor, but often will turn out cliché where she could have done something much more original. i loved the line “a dervish word / whirling on itself / in infinite emptiness, / the widening gyre, / the external motion of grief” because she manages to imbue so much physicality into the abstract description of how a word sounds, but there are plenty of other places where she doesn’t take that route. she’s a good writer, i just think she didn’t push all of her poems enough.
that being said, “newsworthy” was a fantastic poem and i think it’s still worth a read-through if you’re looking for more palestinian poetry to consume. 🇵🇸🇵🇸”Farz
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“Somehow all these decades later
all we can do is watch
with different lenses and on flatter screens
- Excerpt from the poem, Again and Again
The way Lena weaves narratives and imagery is like a conversation with an old friend. It's intimate. Personal. I found myself crying more than once, thumbing the pages as if I could touch that sense of home she wrote of.
She spans so many topics in this collection from living in diaspora to the harshness of occupa tion and motherhood. All of her poetry reflects a deep-rooted love for her Arab heritage and an even deeper grief from it. Her style is deceptively simple and very accessible for new poetry readers, too.
I can't recommend this collection enough. It's comforting and heartbreaking all at once. I know I'll be returning to these poems over and over again.”About Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an American poet of Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian heritage. Her poems have been published in American and international journals including Blackbird, The Boiler, Borderlands Texas Review, The Indianola Review, James Franco Review, The Lake for Poetry, Lunch Ticket, Mizna, The Ofi Press Mexico, Sukoon, and the Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art. Several of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, “Immigrant” in 2015 and for “Middle Village” and “Ruin” in 2016. She is an MFA candidate at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Redmond, Washington, with her family.
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