A fierce, unsparing meditation on identity, trauma, and survival from Palestinian poet Ramy Al-Asheq.

Expanded from the essay Not Dead first published in The New Yorker, this work confronts the legacies of violence and displacement with lyrical precision.

Poetry is the only form for this type of soul-letting, where language itself fractures and asks for a witness, pulling the reader into the tension between embodiment and erasure, selfhood and collective memory.

For readers of confessional nonfiction, contemporary poetry-in-essay, and courageous writing about conflict, the body, and resilience.