A book with a hole in it Primary InformationKamelya Omayma Youssef Kamelya Omayma Youssefs A book with a hole in it uses the poetry of the fragment and the language of everyday survival to gesture towards the fallibility of language at the juncture of the multiple, intersecting wars on women, on "terror," on the non White body, and on people and language in diaspora. Drawn from a set of journals written over a four month period, A book with a hole in it throws the formal, official work of
” …This near-treatise by one of our major experimental poets succeeds on its own terms
bundels in het Duits en Italiaans zijn in voorbereiding
life is always made from parting
verzinnen ze hun eigen utopie
whose lines shepherd us through grief and into an ethics of active resistance
and an underlying approach to artistic expression
whether “we feel the feelings that we call ours
enacting slips and changes of meaning through shifting language
het mamavarken met haar biggetjes
part fictive dream as long poem
Begun in 1963 and only published in its final form in 1984
the woman a lake of funerals'
