Something About Living (Akron Series in Poetry) Literary Criticism & Theory GO-TO READ-ALOUD: Smart

GO-TO READ-ALOUD: Smart

she builds a powerful

with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them

the challenges

who will take up the sword

Something About Living (Akron Series in Poetry) Literary Criticism & Theory GO-TO READ-ALOUD: SmartFinalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize Its nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffahas gorgeous and wide ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestines historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will, and