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Sat, Feb 18

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Yafa Cafe

Book Launch: A book with a hole in it

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Book Launch: A book with a hole in it
Book Launch: A book with a hole in it

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Feb 18, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Yafa Cafe, 4415 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220, USA

About the event

Join us on Saturday (2/18) from 7pm and onwards to celebrate the launch of A book with a hole in it; the debut book by Kamelya Omayma Youssef.

Kamelya Omayma Youssef’s A book with a hole in it uses the poetry of the fragment and the language of everyday survival to gesture towards the fallibility of language at the juncture of the multiple, intersecting wars on women, on "terror," on the non-White body, and on people and language in diaspora. Drawn from a set of journals written over a four-month period, A book with a hole in it throws the formal, official work of poetry into relief, asking what knowledge exists beyond knowledge, which silences are too deep to be surfaced on the page, and how to pierce through trauma and violence to approach a politics of redemption.

Kamelya Omayma Youssef's A book with a hole in it is the 2020 Carolyn Bush Award recipient.

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