{"product_id":"you-can-be-the-last-maya-abu-al-hayyat-9781571315403","title":"You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, \u003ci\u003eYou Can Be the Last Leaf\u003c\/i\u003e draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArt. Garlic. Taxis. Sleepy soldiers at checkpoints. The smell of trash on a winter street, before \"our wild rosebush, neglected \/ by the gate, \/ blooms.\" Lovers who don't return, the possibility that you yourself might not return. Making beds. Cleaning up vomit. Reading recipes. In \u003ci\u003eYou Can Be the Last Leaf, these are the ordinary and profound-sometimes tragic, sometimes dreamy, sometimes almost frivolous--moments of life under Israeli occupation.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, private and public domains are inseparable. Desire, loss, and violence permeate the walls of the home, the borders of the mind. And yet that mind is full of its own fierce and funny voice, its own preoccupations and strangenesses. \"It matters to me,\" writes Abu Al-Hayyat, \"what you're thinking now \/ as you coerce your kids to sleep \/ in the middle of shelling\" whether it's coming up with \"plans \/ to solve the world's problems,\" plans that \"eliminate longing from stories, remove exhaustion from groans,\" or dreaming \"of a war \/ that's got no war in it,\" or proclaiming that \"I don't believe in survival.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eYou Can Be the Last Leaf\u003c\/i\u003e, Abu Al-Hayyat has created a richly textured portrait of Palestinian interiority--at once wry and romantic, worried and tenacious, and always singing itself.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maya Abu Al-Hayyat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571315403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 5.43w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022 pg. 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/16\/2022","brand":"Maya Abu Al-Hayyat","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048697917695,"sku":"9781571315403","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3cb92bdf-c1d7-4c5b-a779-f08cc17a2da7.jpg?v=1684997300","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/you-can-be-the-last-maya-abu-al-hayyat-9781571315403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}