Fugitive Atlas

"In poems that tenderly call us to action, Mattawa awakens readers to the human and geographical devastation wrought by the tendency to 'other' people. Fugitive Atlas is a collaborative prayer for a shattered earth."--Ploughshares

"[A] melodious collection. . . . [Khaled Mattawa] becomes a cartographer of reality across many countries, poetic landscapes, and styles. In a series of imaginative and provocative poems, he asks us to consider the borders--at times government ordained, at times personally, financially, and culturally imposed--that exist off the map and apply meaning to our real lives."--Chapter16

"Khaled Mattawa's arresting, dynamic new collection, Fugitive Atlas, maps and confronts the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the global refugee crisis through a wide range of speakers and rich braiding of forms, and the urgency of scope expands to include all of us."--Arthur Sze

"Khaled Mattawa is a master. How do his poems sear and soothe, so brilliantly, at once? He voyages in the realms of the unspeakable and speaks for us all."--Naomi Shihab Nye

"Fiercely principled and faithful to a revelatory wildness of mind. . . . Fugitive Atlas arrives with an embodied sense of spiritual purpose unlike any collection of poetry I have recently encountered."--Major Jackson

"These are poems of exceptionally real human and political consequence, filled with news that the news does not speak. Khaled Mattawa's Fugitive Atlas is a work of uncommon, poignant character, of resonance and depth."--Alberto Rios

"Khaled Mattawa's Fugitive Atlas is astonishing. It would be a standout book of poetry for any generation, and it is much more. . . . No book by anyone in any genre I can think of gets at this regional and global tragedy as this book does--from the conflicted inside."--William Olsen