Something about Living Format:Paperback Written in the spirit of

Written in the spirit of Hanif Abdurraqib and Olivia Laing

But neither side is prepared for a powerful third party that has apparently been an influential presence on Earth for thousands of years - and just might be making a reappearance very soon

A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD

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Something about Living Format:Paperback Written in the spirit ofWinner 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