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The Inventory for Lost Things<\/span><\/i> is a lyrical meditation on memory, grief, exile, and the ways we rebuild ourselves after loss. Through sixty poems that move between personal recollection and collective history, the collection explores how language becomes both wound and wonder, and how tenderness survives in the aftermath of ruin.<\/span><\/p>\n

The poems traverse intimate and public landscapes, from the quiet ache of familial absence and the ghost of a mother\u2019s voice, to the smouldering ruins of war-torn geographies like Gaza and Khartoum, to the elegies of drowned men and vanished homelands. Each piece in the collection bears witness to displacement, love, and spiritual endurance, drawing from faith, and history to make meaning out of what remains.<\/span><\/p>\n

The collection is structured as an emotional journey from mourning toward renewal, it begins in silence and ends in light, its final poems gesture toward healing, forgiveness, and the \u201ctenderness of language\u201d as a form of survival. <\/span>The Inventory for Lost Things<\/span><\/i> invites readers to remember, to grieve, and to rediscover beauty in the broken places of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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