Crowded House

by Safia Jama

Book Overview

Like a Viewfinder with overlapping reels, Safia Jama examines the way inherited trauma--her parents and brother fleeing military dictatorship in Somalia--can overlay the present day: "when my husband and I parted/ways, it seemed natural to me to pacck, as if, for a day trip/telling no one save two friends." As a new life comes into focus, the speaker of the poems turns her attention to the tiny theater of "my small room"--"gazing out the window:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1957372052
• ISBN13: 9781957372051
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Beltway Editions
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"