I Have Brought You A Severed Hand Radna Fabias introduces English-language readers to a

introduces English-language readers to a writer whose daring prose “conjures up a magical and colorful universe in which desire and pain are interlinked

Wat zegt degene die stil is als die stil is

scathing one moment and tender the next

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Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer

I Have Brought You A Severed Hand Radna Fabias introduces English-language readers to aGhayath Almadhoun In a phalanx of notes and footnotes, I Have Brought You A Severed Hand destabilizes the very hierarchies of the page, and in so doing transgresses the borders of the poem, the nation, the body, and even that zone between speaker and addressee. Written over the years 2017 to 2023, the poet takes us to Palestine, Syria, Germany and Sweden, reasserting the stakes for those unable to leave their states of imprisonment while proposing