Mercurial, or Is That Liberty Simone White and scribbled notes on the

and scribbled notes on the backs of receipts for medicines you don’t know how they work

their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language

Haar afkomst wordt bepaald door een vader die met zijn gezin moest vluchten voor een theocratisch regiem

a defence of poetry

and above all

Mercurial, or Is That Liberty Simone White and scribbled notes on theRachelle Rahm The debut poetry collection by Lebanese American poet Rachelle Rahm, Mercurial, or Is That Liberty? is the work of a dual citizendual in conscience, dual in political allegiance, in exteriority, in friction with genders dualism, aspirations dualism, and the ache of the ethical. A lyrical reckoning with a dualism that has been accepted, rejected, embedded in an endless cycle of self critique, until the border between its apparent halves