Wild Fox of Yemen

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Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets

''It’s thrilling to discover such a staggeringly self-assured debut, to feel in the unmistakable presence of The Real Thing'' Kaveh Akbar

The Yemeni American poet Threa Almontaser’s incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival. A love letter to the country and peop...