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Every single poem is stellar.”—Roxane Gay, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDifficult Women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHunger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGirls That Never Die\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women’s bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings of rebellion, autonomy, and power. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElhillo writes a new world: women escape their stonings by birds that carry the rocks away; slain girls grow into two, like the hydra of lore, sprouting too numerous to ever be eradicated; circles of women are deemed holy, protected. 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Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom \"Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before\":\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e      \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSometimes you just have to leave\u003cbr\u003ewhatever's real to you, you have to clomp\u003cbr\u003ethrough fields and kick the caps off\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eall the toadstools. Sometimes\u003cbr\u003eyou have to march all the way to Galilee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eor the literal foot of God himself before you realize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eyou've already passed the place where\u003cbr\u003eyou were supposed to die. I can no longer remember\u003cbr\u003ethe being afraid, only that it came to an end.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKaveh Akbar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the founding editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDivedapper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. His poems appear recently or soon in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Tin House, Ploughshares, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePBS NewsHour\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and elsewhere. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"seekers coffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243376595228,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0823\/3022\/2876\/files\/image4_1.jpg?v=1782487173"},{"product_id":"the-moon-that-turns-you-back-by-hala-alyan","title":"The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Arsonists’ City \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e The Twenty-Ninth Year, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA diaspora of memories runs through this 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 form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body—and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? 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