Shell Houses

by Rasha Abdulhadi

Rasha is a queer Palestinian Southerner who grew up between Damascus and rural Georgia and cut their teeth organizing on the southsides of Chicago and Atlanta. They are a cultural worker, educator, community technologist, a once and future farmer and beekeeper, as well as a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and Alternate ROOTS. Their work has appeared in Mslexia, Mizna, Room, |tap| magazine, and at sinnerscreek.com. They are a contributor to Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler (Twelfth Planet Press, 2017).

Genres: Poetry, Queer, Nonfiction

24 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Zeyn Joukhadar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rasha Albulhadi is a brilliant poet and performer, and in SHELL HOUSES they explore the spaces we occupy, searching for safety, searching for belonging--state and statelessness, yes, but also the body as home and as vessel, the land, the air and water, the embroidered thobe, dabke and song. I loved this chapbook and can't wait to read what Rasha writes next.

[Sarah Cavar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything a chapbook should be ––attendant to its themes yet richly diverse in content and language; emotionally forceful yet compact enough to be read in one sitting. Loved it.

[Bogi Takács]

This was great! My Twitter thread about it:
https://mobile.twitter.com/bogiperson...
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Source of the book: Free download

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so beautifully written, and there are so many poems in here that will sit with me for a long time.

[michi · Rating 5 out of 5]

read it years ago, loved it. read it again, still loved it. lots of love to my friend kloyde who gave this to me.