"This book is a requiem. It is also a house. Each room is elegant and spare but with a feral grief coming in at every opening. For My Father, by Amira Thoron, is the debut of a poet with both exquisite technical skill and acute emotional perception The speaker of these poems directly addresses the father who vanished and her yearning for him. She reckons with the legacy of a beloved and distant grandmother whose affection was felt in the order...
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