Eating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Pavilion Press But it's her refreshing commitment

But it's her refreshing commitment to the power of the individual poem that will leave the reader turning each page in eager anticipation: here is an immediate

Allusions are so nearly (neatly-delightfully) pinned down

This vast and beautifully parablesque second collection by Qasmiyeh is a poetics of rupture

particularly in the stark realism of the Mercy Ward poems

Eating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Pavilion Press But it's her refreshing commitmentEating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh offers a stunning portrait of life in the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, where Qasmiyeh was born. The poems examine even the harshest aspects of the camp with tenderness, pondering existential questions about time, family, language and identity. A mothers blurry photograph, a fathers sharpened knife, blood stirred into watery lentils and other glimpses into Qasmiyehs upbringing enrich this raw and profound