~A dream came true! ~ Young, beautiful, broke, & unmedicated—rebellious, bad Muslim daughter with no future. Just love. Just God. Just the road. This is for the lost, the hedonistic losers, the sacred, the animal, the queer, the soft, the beloved, etc.
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DENISE LEVERTOV from Milosz Ed. A Book of Luminous Things @harvestbooks DL’s lyric output featured both exotic “mystical” tropes and free muscular music. Ordinary language performs various moves, phrases alternating long and short, metaphoric and sublimely direct.
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Forthcoming in February 2026!
Hunger insists, in its many registers: the body eating, the soul bargaining, the mind circling forbidden want. Time is porous. There are many rabbits.
Let me know what you think! 💖
Designer: Adam Bohannon
“And they searched his chest / But could only find his heart / And they searched his heart / But could only find his people”
— Mahmoud Darwish
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This poem appeared in Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, published by W.W. Norton & Company, 1993.