Birthright (Button Poetry)

By George Abraham

2021 Arab American Awards - George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Winner
2021 Lambda Literary Awards - Bisexual Poetry Finalist
2020 Big Other Awards - Poetry Winner
2020 Big Other Awards - Readers' Choice Finalist

Abraham's highly anticipated debut Birthright constructs a dialogue in which "every pronoun is a Free Palestine."

Through poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing.

Birthright begs readers to stay, to stay lucid, to stay alive, to stay present in this very moment; as it knows now is all we are guaranteed.

As trauma seeps through generations, can the body deconstruct its own inheritance? In a world that only takes, what is owed? What is your Birthright, and where is home?