Results for "Wadud, Asiya"

A poetry collection that brings together word, image, and sound to reflect on fractured, fragmentary states of being.    The poetry of Mandible Wishbone Solvent is situated in the space of bridges, fragmentary overlays, spectral reach, and the desire to keep reaching. Asiya Wadud’s po... Read More about Mandible Wishbone Solvent (Phoenix Poets)

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 HURSTON/WRIGHT AWARD An urgent and vital debut collection of poems that mixes ekphrasis with reportage to draw a new narrative of our present-day migration crises Crosslight for Youngbird explores the slipperiness of borders, as well as borders' tentacles: mother tongue, langua... Read More about Crosslight for Young Bird

Through a series of transmissions and proposals, the poems in No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body explore the intelligence of the body, especially bodies under duress. Wadud evokes the hum and chorus that fills us when we write to explore methods and modes of circulation, contin... Read More about No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body

Poetry. Nominated for a 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry. Through a series of prayers, invocations, and hymns, SYNCOPE eulogizes those who have perished making Central Mediterranean crossings as well as collects first-hand accounts of those who have survived these perilous journeys. Force... Read More about Syncope

Poetry. This book, DAY PULLS DOWN THE SKY / A FILAMENT IN GOLD LEAF is comprised of Okwui Okpokwasili's song lyrics and Asiya Wadud's poems written in response to them. These pages contain both a collaboration and two parallel manuscripts, with Wadud's a filament in gold leaf heading the pages, and ... Read More about Day Pulls Down the Sky / A Filament in Gold Leaf