Something About Living (Akron Series in Poetry) Literary Criticism & Theory A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist

A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist

and beautiful illustrations

When regal nonagenarian

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

who will take up the sword

Something About Living (Akron Series in Poetry) Literary Criticism & Theory A Goodreads Choice Award FinalistFinalist 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