Border Wisdom Blood Snow its brightness measured by the

its brightness measured by the darkness it casts

dood en Afrikaanse religie

finds herself underground

whose walls project scenes One can enter

John Ashbery

Border Wisdom Blood Snow its brightness measured by theAhmad Almallah In his second book of poems, Ahmad Almallah seeks a language that captures the afterlives of the mother tongue. This collection blurs the borders between languages, between the living and the dead, between presence and absence. The poems of Border Wisdom break and mourn physical borders at the same time. Here the exilic idea of a return to a home is expressed in the daily return to the blank page in search of a poem. In these returns