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"Fugitive Atlas is a sweeping, impassioned account of refugee crises, military occupations, and ecological degradation, an acute, probing journey through a world in upheaval. Khaled Mattawa's chorus of speakers finds moments of profound solace in searching for those lost-in elegy and prayer-even when the power of poem and faith seems incapable of providing salvation. With extraordinary formal virtuosity and global scope, these poems turn not to lament for those regions charted as theaters of exploitation and environmental malpractice, but to a poignant amplification of the lives, dreams, and…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2020Graywolf Press · 112 pages · 9781644450376
- Other · English · 2020Graywolf Press · 9781644451335
American literatureAmerican poetryArab American authorsArab RefugeesPoetryRefugeesPolitical refugeesRefugees' writings