Fortunately

2017 Button Poetry Prize Winner

Through poems that utilize hypnotic religious imagery, Nava EtShalom carries readers through an emotional seascape; crashing over on waves of worship. Fortunately unpacks ideas about relationships with family, God, and the self. Each poem is pieced together carefully as a house of cards, and ends solid as a stitched spine. What is left in the body after identity has been assumed? Where does one go to reconcile generations of trauma? EtShalom, is unafraid to ask questions with seemingly impossible answers.

About the author

Nava EtShalom a poet, teacher, and editor in Philadelphia. As a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania, Nava writes about Anglophone literary representations of settler-colonialism in Palestine since the late 19th century. Nava's poetry has won 92Y's Discovery Award, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and prizes from the Academy of American Poets. She's an alum of Oberlin College and the University of Michigan MFA program.

Product details

• Authors: NAVA ETSHALOM
• Publisher: Button Poetry
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781943735587
• ISBN: 978-1-943735-58-7
• No. of pages: 26
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 215 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 68 g
• Series: Button Poetry; Button Poetry Contest Winner
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama