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criss-crossing her neighbourhood with a pram

" - The South

featured in the hit film Pride

to shape the characters' stories

Dear Diaspora Saleh al-Dames criss-crossing her neighbourhood with aDear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric, documentary, and