Magnolia Saïd el-Baz Jim met and married Mary

Jim met and married Mary

in the Lebanese countryside where his uncle maintains there are no “vendettas and bloody feuds like in the North

of clay soil and carved its crumbling bed

Jeremy Hooker

Magnolia Saïd el-Baz Jim met and married MaryMagnolia, Nina Mingya Powles first full collection, dwells within the tender, shifting borderland between languages, and between poetic forms, to examine the shape and texture of memories, of myths, and of a mixed race girlhood. Abundant with multiplicities, these poems find profound, distinctive joy in sensory nourishment in the sharing of food, in the recounting of memoirs, or vividly within nature. This is a poetry deeply attuned to the