Praise for Intifadas "This is a book of poems steeped in tenderness and love for a place, for a people. [.] there is also a richness, a depth of humanity that shines through in the work, and the desire to uplift and protect that humanity might drive you to deep affection, which may flip the switch of rage, which may, I hope, flip the second switch of action." --Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year "Edward Salem is a perfect poet. He writes about everything including being Palestinian with an easy publicness, a ferociousness, a jadedness and a warmth--and he accomplishes the hardest part of a poem, the end, like a saint. His endings feel like asides in which everyone, if they want it, feels included." --Eileen Myles, author of A "Working Life" "If empire could become a witness to itself, it would look like Salem's work--a beautiful soul who has somehow managed to condense a tremendous amalgam of our collective history and culture without denying either part's intimacy or violence." --Marwa Helal, author of Invasive species "Salem has delivered an essential book, alternatingly infuriating and hilarious, a punk manifesto screaming into the void but also throwing stones into it.

" --Danny Caine, author of Jewish American Dream PRAISE FOR EDWARD SALEM "Salem requires his readers to rethink how and why they come to (Palestinian-American) poetry in the first place, and what quiet cultural-political structures have a vested interest in Palestinian-American verse being either epiphanic or redemptive. [.] One leaves the collection excoriated, but as a result renewed and reattuned to suffering's many registers. We startle back into the worst timeline, this one, where our work lies." --Noah Warren, Fence Digital "Salem's writing rings with an honesty that I found intimately provocative yet subtle. It's also funny." --Ottessa Moshfegh, in praise of "Sacrilege".