BORDER WISDOM Limestone Books

Limestone Books

From the press: In a city infested with aliens

AIDS and grief through sorrowful songs that "we sing as hard as we live

queer bodies move across those landscapes

The many voices that emerge in these poems--from historic Black personalities

BORDER WISDOM Limestone BooksPoetry. Winter Editions, 2023. Paperback, 112 pages. 7. 95" x 5. 12" From the press: In his second book of poems, Ahmad Almallah seeks a language that captures the afterlives of the mother tongue. This collection blurs the borders between languages, between the living and the dead, between presence and absence. The poems of Border Wisdom break and mourn physical borders at the same time. Here the exilic idea of a return to a home is expressed in the