How the Water Holds Me

by Tariq Luthun

Both a reckoning and a reclamation, How the Water Holds Me surveys movements through diaspora, dissecting displacement, mortality, responsibility, and masculinity. With deft narrative and rich imagery, Tariq Luthun’s collection of poems makes space for everyone, from Gaza to Detroit, asking us to reassess the notion of belonging, and to do something meaningful with these revelations. How the Water Holds Me invites each of us to explore what it means to seek—and share—refuge.

Genres: Poetry

41 pages, Paperback

First published April 21, 2020

Reviews

[Burgi Zenhaeusern · Rating 5 out of 5]

How to write toward a sense of home when home is more than one place and heritage, when the loss of the homeland is not a one-time event and the welcome tenuous at best? Luthun's beautiful, searingly piercing poems are testimony and exploration of all this and more, and we, the readers, the lucky witnesses.

[Bogi Takács]

Review to come, soonish IY"H (I really liked it)
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Source of the book: Bought with my own money

[guerrillagf · Rating 5 out of 5]

tariq's words are so beautiful and moving it is difficult not to weep reading his words. his poetry is deeply personal but also reflective of the palestinian experience at large. absolutely perfect collection. a must-read.

[Razan · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Don’t get me
wrong. I’m just
wondering: can a boy
find death, and not

bring it home
to show everyone
what he’s found?”

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