DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.
What is political poetry and linguistic activism? What does it mean to bear witness through writing? When language proves insufficient, how do we find and articulate a pathway forward? 

Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. interrogates, subverts, and expands these questions through poems that are formally and lyrically complex, dynamic, and innovative. With rich intertextuality and an unwavering eye, Noor Hindi explores and interrogates colonialism, religion, patriarchy, and the complex intersections of her identity. 

Featuring her widely circulated poem, “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying,” this book is an incomparable force of fury and precision from a powerful and unstoppable poet. Noor Hindi’s collection is ultimately a provocation: on trauma, on art, and on what it takes to truly see the world for what it is/isn’t and change it for the better.

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DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.
What is political poetry and linguistic activism? What does it mean to bear witness through writing? When language proves insufficient, how do we find and articulate a pathway forward? 

Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. interrogates, subverts, and expands these questions through poems that are formally and lyrically complex, dynamic, and innovative. With rich intertextuality and an unwavering eye, Noor Hindi explores and interrogates colonialism, religion, patriarchy, and the complex intersections of her identity. 

Featuring her widely circulated poem, “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying,” this book is an incomparable force of fury and precision from a powerful and unstoppable poet. Noor Hindi’s collection is ultimately a provocation: on trauma, on art, and on what it takes to truly see the world for what it is/isn’t and change it for the better.

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DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

by Noor Hindi
DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

by Noor Hindi

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What is political poetry and linguistic activism? What does it mean to bear witness through writing? When language proves insufficient, how do we find and articulate a pathway forward? 

Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. interrogates, subverts, and expands these questions through poems that are formally and lyrically complex, dynamic, and innovative. With rich intertextuality and an unwavering eye, Noor Hindi explores and interrogates colonialism, religion, patriarchy, and the complex intersections of her identity. 

Featuring her widely circulated poem, “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying,” this book is an incomparable force of fury and precision from a powerful and unstoppable poet. Noor Hindi’s collection is ultimately a provocation: on trauma, on art, and on what it takes to truly see the world for what it is/isn’t and change it for the better.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781642596960
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 05/31/2022
Pages: 80
Sales rank: 369,494
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Noor Hindi (she/her/hers) is a Palestinian-American poet and reporter. Hindi is the Equity and Inclusion Reporter for The Devil Strip Magazine.

Table of Contents

I.

Self-Interrogation 1

Thirst 2

In Which the White Woman on My Thesis Defense Asks Me about Witness 4

Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying 5

I Once Looked in a Mirror but Couldn't See My Body 6

Breaking [News] 7

Palestine 8

Broken Light Bulb Flickering Away 10

Self-Portrait as Arab/Muslim Teenager in an All-White High School 11

Good Muslims Are All Around Us 13

Breaking [News] 15

A Day, A Life; When a Medic Was Killed in Gaza, Was It an Accident? 16

Grief Symphony 18

Breaking [News] 19

I Buried My Brother Last Winter 21

Breaking [News] 22

All My Plants Are Dead 23

II American Beings

Confession 27

A Prayer 28

A Question 29

USCIS Trip #1: A Revision 30

A Quick Study of the Word Existence 31

Tapping on the Glass 32

USCIS Trip #2: Violation 33

The Dream 34

USCIS Trip #3: A Test 35

A Chaos of Semantics 36

A Home 37

USCIS Trip #4: A Photo 38

III.

Poem in Which My Mother Tells Me Not to Get a Pap Smear Because It Might Tear My Nonexistent Hymen 41

Virginity for Sale 42

In a Dream, I Get Married in an Abandoned Mall 44

Dangerous Business 46

I Should Have Broken Up with My Ex 48

Summertime 49

I Call My Mother from the Moon 50

The She 11 of a Cactus Fruit 52

Ode 56

Dabke 57

IV.

Pledging Allegiance 61

Acknowledgments 65

Notes 66

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