Acclaimed French-language poet of the Palestinian diaspora Olivia Elias probes deeply into the upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her English-language debut, Chaos, Crossing is a powerful chronicle of uprootedness, of times marked by inequality, injustice, and disconnection.
Olivia Elias
“One has first to lose faith in words, these poems suggest, then grapple with each word, each line break, their placement on the page, in order to regroup them. Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s translation conveys Elias’s tension and urgency, asking us to stop at each word and to approach one of her central questions: is it possible that too much rage kills rage?” —Ahmad Almallah
