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Wrong Winds

  • ISBN-13: 9781964499482
  • Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: FONOGRAF EDITIONS
  • By Ahmad Almallah
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  • Local release date: 06/07/2025
  • Format: Paperback (203.00mm X 127.00mm) 70 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]Middle East [1FB]
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Ahmad Almallah's third collection considers the impossible task of being a Palestinian in the world today. When genocide is the question, can the answer be anything but wrong? In Wrong Winds, written during the first months of Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, Palestinian-American poet Ahmad Almallah converses with the screams echoing throughout the West. Traversing European cities, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. Through a continuous unsettling of words and places, considering the broken voices of Western poetry (Eliot, Lorca, Celan among others), the poems in Wrong Winds discover the world again and form an impossible dialogue with the dead and dying.
Ahmad Almallah grew up in Bethlehem, Palestine and currently lives in Philadelphia where he is an artist-in-residence in Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. His first book of poems, Bitter English, was published in the Phoenix Poets Series from the University of Chicago Press in 2019. His second poetry collection, Border Wisdom, was published by Winter Editions in 2023. He received the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, and his sequence of poems "Recourse," won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. His poems have appeared in Jacket2, Track//Four, All Roads Will Lead You Home, Apiary, Supplement, SAND, Michigan Quarterly Review, Making Mirrors: Righting/Writing by Refugees, Cordite Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, and Poetry, among others.
"Almallah's writing is immensely relevant; we need his voice." - Naomi Shihab Nye
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