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The Pomegranate Is a Grenade: Poems

The Pomegranate Is a Grenade: Poems

Hashwi, Maha

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1771684704
ISBN13: 9781771684705
Publisher: Central Avenue Poetry
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.13 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
A place to belong for anyone caught between cultures, countries, or selves.

The Pomegranate is a Grenade is a debut poetry collection that examines what it means to grow up Arab and Muslim in the United States, where home is both inherited and continually reshaped. Maha Hashwi draws from the textures of an immigrant household--food shared across generations, religious traditions carried forward, the weight of displacement, and the small, steady acts of love that hold a family together.

Hashwi's poems move between personal narrative and cultural memory, exploring how identity changes with time, migration, and the stories passed down through parents and community. She writes of resistance, tenderness, and the contradictions of belonging to more than one place, offering readers a vivid look at the emotional landscape of the diaspora.

Honest, accessible, and rooted in lived experience, this collection invites readers into the rooms, rituals, and relationships that shape a life between countries--and asks what we carry, and what carries us, when we call more than one place home.

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