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Something about living
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- Book Synopsis
- Shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 Poetry Book Society RecommendationSomething about Living is the brilliant third collection from acclaimed poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.It explores Palestinian life through the lens of language, revealing a legacy of obfuscation and erasure. What happens when language only permits ongoing disasters to be packaged neatly for consumption and subsequent disposal? Searing with insights from the perspective of a Palestinian in diaspora, Something about Living refuses to cede ground to nihilism and apathy, taking the reader through the difficult landscape of hope and futurity in the midst of an interminable, uncertain, and often devastating present.
- About The Author
- Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist and translator. She is the author of three books of poetry: Something about Living (University of Akron Press, 2024; the87press, 2025), shortlisted for the 2025 PEN Heaney Prize, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, winner of the 2024 US National Book Award for Poetry, and the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize; Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award and honourable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award; and Water & Salt (Red Hen), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award and honourable mention for the 2018 Arab American Book Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Arab in Newsland, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Prize, and Letters from the Interior (Diode, 2019), finalist for the 2020 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781068751561
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- the87press, (04 December 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 79
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 mm
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