The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of Arab American poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family—past, present, future—in the face of displacement and war.

A diaspora of memories runs through this lyrical poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic ...