You Can Be The Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat Robin Thomas for something or someone to

for something or someone to love: tangible and real

Nina Billard Sarmadi

and abuse – with the hygienic space in which art is consumed

a succession of poems from the sixteenth century to the present

You Can Be The Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat Robin Thomas for something or someone toFinalist 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