You Can Be The Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat Christmas25 interior lights – a train

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elusive or moored in a negotiation of the material world as she roams through the landscapes of self and city

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You Can Be The Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat Christmas25 interior lights – a trainFinalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Translation Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al Hayyat. Art. 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