Eating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Peter Bennet fragments become sentences

fragments become sentences

As with Homer

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Eating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Peter Bennet fragments become sentencesEating 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