After by Babo Kamel

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$14.99

 

What does it mean to live with a communal memory so catastrophic that one has a permanent sense of coming AFTER?  Babo Kamel, in these beautifully cadenced poems of understated passion, draws on the vivid, fanciful dreamscapes of Chagall against the nightmare of history, intensifying by contrast both the value and the violation of a world forever lost.  Powerful, poignant, and timely in today’s world of refugees: this true folk tale—“the story of breadcrumbs/how birds ate the way home.”

–Eleanor Wilner

 

Open this small book and enter a world of feeling bright with music and lit with clouds trailing streams of color: Babo Kamel’s After is “a whole circus of violins/ tasting of amber and rain”.   Her poems dance through our understanding, large with history, and leave “red memory / on the skin”, calling us and our beloved dead “back again into the half-light of being”.  Kamel’s light illuminates experience that becomes our own, vivid as the paintings that have evoked these passionate and beautiful poems, and gives them their living presence on the page.

–Deena Linett, author of Translucent When Fired: Poems New & Selected, and What Winter Means, a novel.

 

 

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After

by Babo Kamel

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-584-1

2018

Originally from Montreal, Canada, Babo Kamel now resides in Venice, Florida. Her poems have appeared in literary journals in the US, Australia, and Canada. Some of these include Painted Bride Quarterly, Abyss & Apex, The Greensboro Review, Cleaver, The Grolier Poetry Prize, Rabbit, Contemporary Verse 2, Rust +Moth, Mobius, a Journal of Social Change, 2River Review, The San Pedro River Review, Redactions, and The Inflectionist Review. She was a winner of The Charlotte Newberger Poetry Prize and is a three-time Pushcart nominee. You can find her at www.babokamel.com.

 

 

3 reviews for After by Babo Kamel

  1. Rachael Ary-De Rozza (verified owner) –

    Babo Kamel is truly a natural poet, an exquisite example of pure and perfect art. Each carefully crafted poem is an absolute jewel of insight and imagery that is unforgettable, deeply wraps the heart and touches the soul. I am enthralled with her work.

  2. Rachael DeRozza (verified owner) –

    The poems of Babo Kamel are so pure, so profound, so very penetrating to the deepest core of the heart and soul. She is a true natural in her art. I am so moved by the poignant images, the messages of pain and the imagery of striking beauty. Takes the reader to places they need to go; a very emotional journey, a place we do need to visit with this fine collection of poems. Babo Kamel has a craft that is rare and precious and the effect is indelibly locked into the soul.

  3. Virga Mohsini –

    How haunting, raw and beautiful are these poems!! They tug the heart-strings in so many directions…. The question that rings for us all: how does one survive displacement and loss? Babo Kamel so poignantly explores what makes for human resilience through so many of life’s pains and sorrows. Her brave writing offers deep hope, and truly moves the heart and soul. Bravo, bravissimo!!!

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