Acclaimed poet Khaled Mattawa conjures a pointed, incantatory account of the refugee experience during Operation Mare Nostrum.

KHALED MATTAWA¿currently teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan. He¿is the author of four books of poetry, and a critical study of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.¿Mattawa has coedited two anthologies of Arab American literature and translated many volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry. His awards include the Academy of American Poets Fellowship prize, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and a MacArthur Fellowship.¿