The land is holy / Noam Keim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keim, Noam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Keim, Noam.

Jews--Biography.

Jews.

Jews--History.

Gender-nonconforming people--Biography.

Gender-nonconforming people.

Imperialism.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

156 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Radix, [2024]

Summary:

""I don't think you ever move on from leaving a life behind." In their debut nonfiction collection, Noam Keim weaves lyrical essays in conversation with the natural world about the meanings, respite, and healing we gain from its stubborn survivors. Home has meant many different things to Noam Keim. Born a Queer Arab Jew in a settler family in Occupied Palestine, raised in the cobblestone streets of Mulhouse, France; a lifetime of escape across Europe, the foothills of Himalayas in Nepal, Bangkok, and then the makings of a chosen family on Occupied Lenape Land, known as Philadelphia. Through it all, the memory of one's homes, the persistence of kin persecuted across timelines, their complicity in settler colonialism, and a dogged disavowal of inherited trauma. In this staunchly anti-zionist and abolitionist project, the author considers the wounds of diaspora ache by turning to the fierce primal inhabitants of their lineage for answers. The stork in cyclical rotation, the bitter shiba, the prickly sweet Sabra, the blooming Lindens form larger-than-life metaphors in these essays. Surviving through violent crises and cruel political turns of hand, they are the salve to a world that can be possible with nurture. Keim writes, "I want to believe that we carry, in our bodies and bones and blood, the particles of the leaves and flowers that saw our lineages past. Kin." And in turn they urge us to find kinship with the world that wants us alive and buoyant"-- provided by publisher.

Contents:

A life in flight

The mallards

The aoudads

Thinking about na3na3

Fruits of the desert

Plante persistante

A small correction about birds and spoons

My mother's mother

In the shadow of his body

Freedom trees

This song is a cover

Linden tea recipe

Monster

To Walter

Heavenly tree.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references.

ISBN:

9781737718482

1737718480

OCLC:

1445875220