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"A wordless title is incredibly fitting for this National Book Award finalist poetry collection that is felt more than it is read. Fady Joudah writes of the horror faced by Palestinians as they live, love and die through war and violence against them. The poem “Dedication” lists the many whom these poems are dedicated to. “To the martyrs who witness from above, and the living who witness on the ground. To those who will be killed on the last day of the war. To those who will be killed on the first day after the war ends. To those who succumb in the humanitarian window of horror. An hour before the pause, a minute after.” The collection shows us the world through Palestinian eyes at a time when such a worldview is most needed."