Exhausted on the Cross Mark Nowak Anton de Kom

Anton de Kom

is a maelstrom of voices cast in the underwater shadows and nuclear light of the Anthropocene

many of which began as literary works—Arabian Nights

Milford Graves

Nomenclature collects eight volumes of Brand’s poetry published between 1982 and 2010 and includes a critical introduction by the literary scholar and theorist Christina Sharpe

Exhausted on the Cross Mark Nowak Anton de KomNajwan Darwish We drag histories behind us, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, here where theres neither land nor sky. In pared down lines, brilliantly translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu Zeid, Darwish records what Ral Zurita describes as something immemorial, almost unspeakablea poetry driven by a moral imperative to be a colossal record of violence and, at the same time, the no less colossal record of