You Can Be The Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat Arundhathi Subramaniam Peeling away the layers of

Peeling away the layers of two overlapping marriages

extreme empathy and vivid imagery make Somewhere Something is Burning a compelling joyride of a read

Spanning from the British Empire to the contemporary moment

these poems journey into a buried and sometimes violent landscape to locate the traces of ourselves that remain

where the boundaries of poetry and spirituality merge seamlessly

You Can Be The Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat Arundhathi Subramaniam Peeling away the layers ofFinalist 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