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I Who Have Always Felt Words: Poems

I Who Have Always Felt Words: Poems

Alkamil, Shams

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 5, 2027

ISBN10: 1771684828
ISBN13: 9781771684828
Publisher: Central Avenue Poetry
Published: Jan 5 2027
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.20
Language: English
For anyone who has ever carried the weight of inheritance, faith, and survival--and refused to be silent.

I Who Have Always Felt Words is a poetry collection shaped by inheritance, faith, and the radical act of thriving amid hardship. Moving through the four temperaments, Shams Alkamil crafts a lyric architecture that holds Sudanese identity, familial lineage, political violence, spirituality, and the pursuit of compassion in delicate tension.

These poems braid etymology with embodiment, tracing how language is inherited, questioned, and transformed. Alkamil interrogates what it means to belong--to a homeland fractured by violence, to a lineage marked by survival, to a spiritual tradition that both anchors and unsettles. Across the collection, voice becomes both offering and resistance: a means of devotion, protest, and continuity.

Rooted in Black diasporic consciousness and spiritual inquiry, I Who Have Always Felt Words insists on the necessity of speech even when silence is demanded. This is a book that listens deeply--to ancestors, to faith, to grief--and answers with clarity, grace, and unflinching honesty.

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