The Knives We Need

The Knives We Need
Nava Etshalom
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27 Feb 2021
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9780887486678
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The Knives We Need is a settler-colonial coming-of-age tale, set in landscapes in Palestine and the United States. In short, iterative lyric poems, Nava Etshalom combs through disastrous settler genealogies. Wittily, meticulously, the collection unpicks the stitches of nationalism, sees its costs sidelong, and goes looking for another kind of home.
"I never made anything / but a concession to thunder," writes Nava EtShalom. Her poem-making in The Knives We Need is urgent, spare, passionate, mysterious. Hers is a voice of prophecy reverberating with the thunder of old patriarchal sins, the Binding of Isaac, stolen land, suicide, mourning, a saving disobedience. These wise, beautiful poems count gaps and gashes, and from the fracture, draw new wholeness, a healing art. --Rosanna Warren Nava EtShalom' s Fortunately registers the note of regret its title bears by ingenious means. You can take time thinking about it, but EtShalom, a witty, meticulous and astute poet, has delivered her verdict on our times and their horrors of displacement, devastation and guiltless equanimity in the face of violence. EtShalom' s evidence goes back to her begats and ours, her yearnings and ours. She almost redeems us by noting an unstoppable capacity for love within us and by registering that innocence does exist. Otherwise, the countless unforgivables that we lay at the feet of misfortune are luminously, even beautifully rendered. Fortunately is a powerful collection by a gifted and deeply engaging poet. --Khaled Mattawa
Nava EtShalom' s poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Believer, Boston Review, and elsewhere. Her work has won 92Y' s Discovery Poetry Contest, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and awards from the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Philadelphia and moves through crip time. This is her first book.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780887486678
Published: 27 Feb 2021
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Imprint: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 8mm
Width: 5mm
Pages: 64

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