Emilia Phillips

Mar 18, 2024 | agnionline.bu.edu | Abdelrahman ElGendy |S. Brook Corfman |Emilia Phillips |Hannah Vander Hart

[…] by Fady Joudah. 100 pages. Milkweed Editions, 2024. $16.00.   Dear Fady,[…] haunts me. It has haunted me since I first read it, bending over my desk near midnight, bathed in the amber glow of my lamp, and beside me, a cold, forgotten cup of cinnamon tea. The collection’s title, […], sets the tone: this is a text designed to disarm and unsettle. To embody the erased, the unsayable. The reader is here to do the labor of listening: Listen to the Palestinian speak. Equally, listen to their silence.