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    Must-Read Poetry: Winter 2024

    by Summer Farah Jan 09, 2024 4 minutes

    JANUARY

    Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali 

    Selected as Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, explores the matriarchs of the Abrahamic faiths, weaving aching narratives of mothering and daughtering, faith in the divine and in the body. Sarah Ghazal Ali’s lyric drips with reverence, whether it is for language or for subject. There is a constant oscillation in her metaphor, an intriguing push-and-pull. In the opening poem “MY FAITH GETS GRIME UNDER ITS NAILS,” she writes, “A woman crowned / holy is a calamity,” or in “TEMPORAL”, a poem dealing in doubles, “I unlimb my dolls, braid and section / their stiff hair”, or the mirrored construction in “Spectacle”, “Who consoled Hajar consoled who?”; these balancing acts let the harsh

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