Something Evergreen Called Life At “Some of you will know

“Some of you will know what I mean

” Mira Mattar proves the always new and always ancient tools of poetry help us love the world as it is

"Soms droom ik dat: wanneer ik bang ben voor de nimmer bange meeuwen die vrij zijn

Lavinia Greenlaw

so becoming its becomingness – like a wisdom book or a book of Changes

Something Evergreen Called Life At “Some of you will knowRania Mamoun (trans. Yasmine Seale) After years of writing and organizing against the regime of Omar al Bashir, Sudanese writer, journalist, and activist Rania Mamoun was finally forced to leave her country with her young daughters, taking refuge in a US city in the early throes of a pandemic. Confined to her new home, Mamoun embarked on a daily practice of writing out of which emerged these poems of loss, despair, and hope. Brought into English by