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Water & Salt

Di Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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Editore:: Red Hen Press
Pubblicato:: Apr 27, 2017
ISBN:: 9781597095945
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's debut, Water & Salt, sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage. These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage and inviting the reader to see the human lives lived beyond the headlines.

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Water & Salt

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Editore:: Red Hen Press
Pubblicato:: Apr 27, 2017
ISBN:: 9781597095945
Formato:: Libro

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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an American poet of Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian heritage. Her poems have been published in American and international journals including Blackbird, The Boiler, Borderlands Texas Review, The Indianola Review, James Franco Review, The Lake for Poetry, Lunch Ticket, Mizna, The Ofi Press Mexico, Sukoon, and the Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art. Several of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, “Immigrant” in 2015 and for “Middle Village” and “Ruin” in 2016. She is an MFA candidate at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Redmond, Washington, with her family.

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Water & Salt - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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YOU WILL NEED TO STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR VISIT

UPON ARRIVAL

You will need to state the reason for your visit.

Don’t say because I want to walk down old roads

and caress stone walls the color of my skin.

You will need to state the reason for your visit.

Don’t say because the olives are ready for harvest

and I will coax the fruit from the trees,

press it into liquid gold.

You will need to state the reason for your visit.

Don’t say because my parents’ house

still sits empty on a bluff overlooking the sea,

the green shutters my grandfather had just painted

remain sealed shut

and the army listed the property’s owners

as absentees.

You will need to state the reason for your visit.

Don’t say because I am carrying prayers in my suitcase

for a people who wait,

and I’ll unfold them

embroidered linens of verse

and spread them out across the land.

GRANDMOTHERING

In memory of SFK

Tin bowl

warm water

wide-tooth comb

red ribbons

Your hands

weave moisture

into stubborn, parched curls

again and

again

tucking prayers

in whispers near my ears

humming love

patiently

Strumming

like oud strings

familiar song

into thick, brown strands

ya teyteh ya habibti

Tying each braid

with a delicate bow

holding my chin up with your

warm hands

smiling again

at a young girl

in red ribbons

TIME TRAVEL

We travel back so that you

will know who we were and who

you might have been if you

had lived here too.

We travel back so that you

can become who you are.

We travel back not to

because even now

after we’ve lived longer

here than anywhere else

we still think of this place

as new, as a destination,

a motion forward

out of the womb

or darkness or the arms of

love. We travel

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