An important new collection of poetry by Edward Salem, highlighting the Palestinian experience from unique angles and styles. While understandably covering loss, violence, and love of country, land, and people, the poems are at times also funny, strange, and satirical. Salem offers a strong voice (combining tenderness and rage) and authority on a place and identity outside of my lived experience, and I feel more informed and engaged having taken my time with this collection.
Intifadas by Edward Salem, (List Price: $17.95, Sarabande Books, 9781956046694, April 2026)
Reviewed by Sarah, Old Town Books in Alexandria, Virginia