The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser
PBS Wild Card Autumn 2021 Maria Stepanova Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

in which the interplay of etymologies

the cool swill of freedom

Her song-like poems draw on years of experience of bookkeeping and manual work in industry

the still unfulfilled promise of Latin America

The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser <br> <b> PBS Wild Card Autumn 2021</b> Maria Stepanova Adrianne KalfopoulouBy turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective, always guided by faith and ancestry, Threa Almontaser's incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self knowledge and survival. A love letter to the country and people of Yemen, a portrait of young Muslim womanhood in New York after 9 11, and an extraordinarily composed examination of what it means to carry in the body the echoes of what came before, Almontaser's polyvocal