I Have Brought You A Severed Hand Radna Fabias scathing one moment and tender

scathing one moment and tender the next

A West Coast poet

Wat zegt degene die stil is als die stil is

and cross-diasporic gatherings

zo heb ik u lief

I Have Brought You A Severed Hand Radna Fabias scathing one moment and tenderGhayath Almadhoun In a phalanx of notes and footnotes, I Have Brought You A Severed Hand destabilizes the very hierarchies of the page, and in so doing transgresses the borders of the poem, the nation, the body, and even that zone between speaker and addressee. Written over the years 2017 to 2023, the poet takes us to Palestine, Syria, Germany and Sweden, reasserting the stakes for those unable to leave their states of imprisonment while proposing