I Imagine Myself Ghalya F T Al Said full of sudden twists and

full of sudden twists and turns

narrator embarks on her literal and figurative journey

Otis Redding sitting on the dock of the Bay

mothers who collect clouds in small bottles

I Imagine Myself Ghalya F T Al Said full of sudden twists andI Imagine Myself is for anyone who has ever imagined they were someone (or something) else. A powerful collection that asserts the freedom to have a visible midlife as a woman, to have difficulties in a relationship and work through them, and to weather the storms of ageing. In ambitious and dynamic poems, I Imagine Myself gives voice to the experience of trying to discover a new self, tracing an arc through illness, middle age, connections to other