Questions on My Mind
As though blinded by grief and loss, a poet asks the moon to tell her what has happened to Gaza. Questions fumble through Gaza’s devastated landscape like hands discovering a loved one’s face by touch alone.
Editions: English, German, Spanish
Reviews
“Dima Maher Ashour’s ‘Questions on my Mind’ is a beautiful and devastating work that asks the most urgent questions of our time. ‘I look up and see no tents, no / occupation. Why don’t we live in the sky?’ the clear-eyed narrator asks in its opening page. In precise and captivating lines, Ashour voices the despair of grieving one’s home, the heartbreak of homesickness, and the righteous anger in the face of Israel’s ongoing genocide: ‘Is the door of my house still black? Or is it smeared in the blood of the martyrs in Gaza? Is it now a disheveled grey, covered with ashes of destruction?’ From meditative recollections of daily life in Gaza that offer a richness of details to a litany of unanswerable questions implicating each of us, this zine is a testament to the resilience of a people under siege and the sustaining power of language.”
—Cassidy McFadzean, Author of Crying Dress, Drolleries, and Hacker Packer, and Poet-in-Residence at Arc Poetry Magazine.
“Dima Maher’s language is powerful and poignant and her voice must not be missed.” —Reem Faruqi
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