Bitter English Alice Notley and attend to the moments

and attend to the moments when coherence appears to take place or dissolve

makes his pleasurable way through miserable space

Glück noemde Averno (2006) naar een klein kratermeer in Zuid-Italië

these smuggled words that no border can stop" – with which to fight persecution and exile

across the pages of each book

Bitter English Alice Notley and attend to the momentsAhmad Almallah Imagine you are a Palestinian who came to America as a young man, eventually finding yourself caught between the country you live in with your wife and daughter, and the homeand parentsyou left behind. Imagine living every day in your nonnative language and becoming estranged from your native tongue, which you use less and less as you become more ensconced in the United States. This is the story told by Ahmad Almallah in Bitter English,