Something About Living: National Book Award Winner Binding:Paperback and of Black fashion

and of Black fashion

she's not quite sure how to feel

and a missing older brother who stoked her childhood love of ballet but disappeared to deal with his own demons

the famed historically Black college where he taught the next generation of Black scientists—men and women—to love plants and fungi as much as he did

an unspeakable bond forms between them

Something About Living: National Book Award Winner Binding:Paperback and of Black fashion2025 ALA Notable Book Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize Its nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffahas gorgeous and wide ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestines historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence