A book with a hole in it - Kamelya Omayma Youssef soy ink you’ll paint a set of

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Published February 2026

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A book with a hole in it - Kamelya Omayma Youssef soy ink you’ll paint a set ofKamelya Omayma Youssefs A book with a hole in it uses the poetry of the fragment and the language of everyday survival to gesture towards the fallibility of language at the juncture of the multiple, intersecting wars on women, on "terror," on the non White body, and on people and language in diaspora. Drawn from a set of journals written over a four month period, A book with a hole in it throws the formal, official work of poetry into relief, asking