I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir by Hala Alyan

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I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir by Hala AlyanThe rich and deeply personal debut memoir by award winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan, whose experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reckon with her own past, and the legacy of her familys exile and displacement, all in the name of a new future. After a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by miscarriage after miscarriage, Hala Alyan makes the decision to use a surrogate. In this charged time, she turns

” begins Rick Barot

a baby bathing in a kitchen sink

Brenda Shaughnessy

and educator

Yusef Komunyakaa

Featured poets include Adam Falkner

fully investing itself in the possibilities of language and intelligence—by way of a traditional and abiding faith in poetry—to illuminate the ceaseless advances of personal

shortlisted for the Poetry International Prize

without resistance

” in the sense that a junk shop is full of old things waiting for their next use

Written over the span of several decades―from Some Changes in 1971 to Last Poems in 2001―Jordan’s poems are at once of their era and tragically current

his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited

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