I Have Brought You A Severed Hand Natalie Diaz and “inklings / of sob

and “inklings / of sob shout or song / inking clarity in book stone rustle / word sending leaves down / in further language…” At the quarter mark of the 21st Century

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I Have Brought You A Severed Hand Natalie Diaz and “inklings / of sobGhayath Almadhoun In a phalanx of notes and footnotes, I Have Brought You A Severed Hand destabilizes the very hierarchies of the page, and in so doing transgresses the borders of the poem, the nation, the body, and even that zone between speaker and addressee. Written over the years 2017 to 2023, the poet takes us to Palestine, Syria, Germany and Sweden, reasserting the stakes for those unable to leave their states of imprisonment while proposing