Non-Essential Work
Published on 4. April 2023
127 pages
978-0-7022-6744-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this exciting follow-up to his acclaimed collection The Lost Arabs, award-winning poet Omar Sakr delves deep into his loves and losses to create a riveting literary experience. Asking questions of timeliness and timelessness, Non-Essential Work is a restless and relentless volume that showcases a poet unquestionably in his prime.
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Content
- Cover
- Author Biography
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- I
- I Woke Up This Morning
- Every Time I Visit
- I Do Not Love Wasps
- Salaat
- Poem after Christchurch
- Postscript for Poem after Christchurch
- Dirt
- While Observing My Jido Hold Court at the Kitchen Table
- Iris
- Relevant to the Day
- What Distance Burns
- II
- On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante's Inferno
- Dancing in Full View of the Old Masters
- Terrorist
- Regards
- On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante's Inferno
- On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante's Inferno
- On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante's Inferno
- Relevant to the Day
- Relevant to the Day
- When the Veil Parts
- A Song of Love
- Uncovered
- Suppositions
- III
- When I Said Yes
- Ritual Scroll
- Love under Capitalism
- Redback
- Relevant to the Day
- Blessed Be This Sadness
- The Golden Hour in Unit Block 10
- An Ode to My Future Son
- A Muslim, Christmas
- Inbox (1426)
- Sundown
- Buzzing
- IV
- Diary of a Non-Essential Worker
- Priest of Cheesy Fries
- Where I Am Not
- Stay Safe
- Relevant to the Day
- A Reimagining
- The Poems I Couldn't Write This Week
- On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante's Inferno
- On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante's Inferno
- Your People Your Problem
- No Context in a Duplex
- Draft
- My Enemies Need to Know
- Shiver
- V
- The Report
- Workshop: Borders
- Enough
- In the Wake of a Tragedy
- Things that Saved My Life Lately
- Love Poem for the Honeymoon Phase that Doesn't End
- On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante's Inferno
- Returning to Auburn, I Remember
- Fruit
- Confession
- For a Country that Cannot Keep Its Children
- Masks Off
- VI
- I Felt like a Saint
- Chorus
- Little Fictions
- Rooted
- To Be Loved Like This
- Souvenir from Another Year
- Another Faith
- The Right Shoe
- Relevant to the Day
- On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante's Inferno
- On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante's Inferno
- Believe
- The Thing About Being in Love Is That
- Child
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
