The Wild Fox of Yemen
08 July 2021Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
'It’s thrilling to discover such a staggeringly self-assured debut, to feel in the unmistakable presence of The Real Thing' Kaveh Akbar
The Yemeni American poet Threa Almontaser’s incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival. A love letter to the...
Details
08 July 202180 pages
9781529078466Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The spirit of Whitman lives in these poems that sing and celebrate a vibrant, rebellious body with all its physical and spiritual entanglements.Harryette Mullen, judge’s statement for the Walt Whitman Award
It’s thrilling to discover such a staggeringly self-assured debut, to feel in the unmistakable presence of The Real ThingKaveh Akbar, author of the collections Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf
The Wild Fox of Yemen is an intoxicating debutEduardo C. Corral, author of the collections Guillotine and Slow Lightening
Richly playful and deadly serious at once, employing delicious mixologies of risky, robust imagery, Almontaser welcomes us to the wild confluences that make up so many lives spanning the seasNaomi Shihab Nye, author of The Tiny Journalist
