Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize

It’s 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 Tuffaha’s gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestine’s historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will, and the gentle delights we embrace to survive that violence. Khalaf Tuffaha’s elegant poems sing the fractured songs of Diaspora while remaining clear-eyed to the cause of the fracturing: the multinational hubris of colonialism and greed.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2024
Publisher: Univ of Akron Pr
Pages: 81
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1629222739
ISBN 13: 9781629222738