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Rifqa by Mohammed El-KurdEach day after school, Mohammed El Kurds grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqashe was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqas exile from Haifa to his familys current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical and

to speak a truth created by a collage of song and confession

in equal measure

approaching each line with delicacy

Stepmotherland documents an artist’s evolution into manhood and heralds the arrival of a stunning new poetic voice

was my home

but in this brilliant new collection

poetry and punk

Something like that

First to wobble in pleasure and pain and first to be represented by the moon

” In essays that can be at once intimate and political

"The city becomes human in its unraveling

a testimony of the mountains and valleys of love’s opulent and familiar terrain