Birthright

Abraham’s highly anticipated debut constructs a dialogue in which “every pronoun is a Free Palestine” confronting the question of what we come to own by being born. Birthright begs us to stay, to stay lucid, to stay alive, to stay present in this very moment; it knows now is all we are guaranteed. As trauma seeps through generations, can the body deconstruct its own inheritance? In a world that only takes, what is owed? What is your Birthright, and where is home?

Though poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing. Birthright begs us to stay, to stay lucid, to stay alive, to stay present in this very moment; as it knows now is all we are guaranteed. As trauma seeps through generations, can the body deconstruct its own inheritance? In a world that only takes, what is owed? What is your Birthright, and where is home?