Poet and trauma therapist Lenna Jawdat’s 70,000, a debut collection that began with the goal of handwriting numbers one-by-one up to 70,000, to represent the number of books seized from Palestinian homes and libraries by Zionist forces in the Spring of 1948, interweaving poetry in three threads: the numbers themselves, the documentation of the poet’s process, and the personal and familial poetic narrative, leading to a gesture of hope towards personal and collective healing, to Michelle Halket at Central Avenue, for publication in 2026, by Amanda Orozco at Transatlantic Literary Agency. (NA English)
Lenna is represented by Amanda Orozco.
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