Something About Living: National Book Award Winner Binding:Paperback Please Don't Sit on My

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes is not only a brilliant look at our current cultural moment

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she is welcomed by its owner

and a missing older brother who stoked her childhood love of ballet but disappeared to deal with his own demons

is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school

Something About Living: National Book Award Winner Binding:Paperback Please Don't Sit on My2025 ALA Notable Book Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize Its nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffahas gorgeous and wide ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestines historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence