"I wrote poetry before I wrote anything else," says Susan
Abulhawa, esteemed Palestinian-American author and social activist,
in the introduction to her first book of poems, My Voice Sought
the Wind. This new work followed her highly acclaimed novel,
Mornings in Jenin, which has been translated into 32 languages
since it was published in 2010.
My Voice Sought
the Wind represents five years of Abulhawa's best poems on the
timeless themes of love, loss, identity, and family, brought to life
through her vivid observations and intimate personal reflections. She
writes from her own experience, with a style that is romantic, but
tinged with disillusionment, often a bit sad and always
introspective.
