Sahar Khraibani: One Thousand Ghosts in this Feast

Sahar Khraibani’s ONE THOUSAND GHOSTS IN THIS FEAST contends with desire, grief, and language as sites of injury and release. Written over a period of three days—amid ongoing genocide, land seizure, and displacement—the long poem counters logics of possession with those of relation. Khraibani’s all caps, first-person address impels the poem forward, centering intertextuality as a force through which spectral presences shine through.