50 Water Dreams

Author: Siwar Masannat Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center (2015) "As critic Jacqueline Rose says of Mahmoud Darwish, here is a poetry that writes back. Fragmentary by nature, this innovative dream sequence speaks across borders, interrogating the language of power relationships and singing toward a longed for home. These clips of language beg for recovery, for coherence in a world unlikely to cohere. 'What is causality, / for x to lead to y? What / is loss of land?' asks Masannat in 50 Water Dreams, her essential debut." –Sally Keith"How rare and exhilarating it is, in our time, to find a book that is both wildly inventive and daring in its style and incredibly compelling in its content! 50 Water Dreams takes us on a book-long journey of Fadia and Ishmael and a mysterious horse that keeps the house company ('horse that humanizes the house,' 'horse that may keep the house from dying'). The romance here is this: Fadia's father was a dead man forced to go home on foot &am