Something About Living (Akron Series in Poetry) Asian American Literature & Fiction and all the while

and all the while

Winning Catriona’s favor could be the key to his success

” —Ngozi Ukazu

in an act of selfless courage years ago

But when the vet tells Kay that Flash’s problem is not a disc but in fact a tumor growing on his spine and Flash has

Something About Living (Akron Series in Poetry) Asian American Literature & Fiction and all the whileFinalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize Its 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 Tuffahas gorgeous and wide ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestines historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will, and