The Body of History and the Memory of Home in “The Wild Fox of Yemen.” – Chicago Review of Books

The Body of History and the Memory of Home in “The Wild Fox of Yemen.” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Yemeni American poet and translator Threa Almontaser won the 2020 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for her brilliant debut poetry collection, The Wild Fox of Yemen. Her poems touch on young rebellion, the thin veil of protection a language grants you, and how history is often stored in the body. … Read more