Chaos, Crossing

In her English-language debut, acclaimed French-language poet of the Palestinian diaspora Olivia Elias probes deeply into the upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Foreword by Najwan Darwish

CHAOS, CROSSING--translated by award-winning translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid--is a powerful chronicle of uprootedness, of times marked by inequality, injustice, and disconnection. These poems--presented here in a bilingual edition--seek the calm at the center of the storm, the still point amidst the chaos.