[...]Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens. Fady Joudah is the author of six previous collections of poems: *The Earth in the Attic*; *Alight*; *Textu*, a book long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; *Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance*; and, most recently, *Tethered to Stars*. He has translated several collections of poetry from

At the volume’s center

and worked with the most significant black British swing musicians of the1930s

but while he was working as a lumberjack she died in childbirth

The attack proved fatal

us into a war between kitchen and bedroom

and mother and daughter

great Adrian Mitchell

family members and their lost and vanishing stories

In considering all our lives and circumstances

Her work has appeared nationally and internationally in literary magazines and anthologies

where the phrase becomes the thought

Bacharevic’s story is brilliantly rendered into English and Scots from Russian and Belarusian