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The Call of Paradise (Winner of the Chapbook Prize) Price includes shipping (Pre-Order)
By Majda Gama
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Praise for The Call of Paradise (Winner of the 2022 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, judged by Diane Seuss):
The speaker of Majda Gama’s The Call of Paradise is a “[b]ride of many cities, daughtered by the East & mothered by the West,” with poems placed in Beirut and punk L.A., Bab Makkah, the Al-Ain Oasis, and “in the red, backhoed dirt of Virginia,” the Red Sea and “the summer / Shoreline in America,” visible and invisible, her hair both black and neon pink, occupying the edge but “unable to submerge.” Even the poems’ forms, at times, feature parenthetical weavings, and ghazal-like shifts and dualities. The result of this fluid positionality is nuanced, hushed witness, oud-scented ritual, and deep artfulness. The speaker may not arrive in paradise, but at the termination of this beautiful sequence of poems, she hears its call. ~Diane Seuss, Contest Judge, and author of frank: sonnets