Flutter

About this book

Between flutter and bleeding.. a journey into the soul's corridors. There is a moment in life when time stops rotating, and heartbeats become existence's only measure. Here, in the collection "Flutter," Nadia El-Mallakh opens the soul's windows wide, taking us on a journey unlike customary tales. This is no mere poetry collection, but a public confession of love, and a noble fracture before loss's grandeur, and a cry of freedom in the face of "the words' guillotine." The poems in "Flutter" slip like light through memory's cracks; at times we find ourselves in "the Tavern of Wandering" seeking our lost features, and at others we stand before "the Wall of Breaths" where farewell mingles with jasmine's scent. In this work the poet redefines the distance between "ha" and "ba," and makes of letters a hanging bridge between fracture waters and the sky's trembling. She is a woman owning nothing but thirsting when water tries to break the jar, and a poet harnessing language to pat meaning's shoulder when estrangement intensifies. "Flutter" is that heavy satchel.