Like We Still Speak

Winner, 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize

“This is a deeply spiritual book, all the more so because of its clarity and humility. Yet, we cannot walk away from the addictive command that so many of these poems ask us to follow: to read them along plural paths whose order changes while their immeasurable spirit remains unbound. Each poem is a singular vessel—of narratives, embodiments that correspond with memories, memories that recollect passion. . . . Like We Still Speak is a sanctum. Inside it, we are enthralled by beauty, consoled by light, sustained by making.”

—Fady Joudah and Hayan Charara, from the Preface

Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra’s Like We Still Speak,...