Unceded Land
Issam Zineh’s debut poetry collection Unceded Land is a lyrical marvel, tracing the lines of intimacy, loss, and the colonial legacy in Palestine. With an eye that wanders from the subtly beautiful to the crushingly blunt, his poetry seeks out the “primordial egg within us,” the truths that are “traded in broken bones.”
Zineh’s capturing of the romantic and violent, the personal and the political, is a testament to his unwavering dedication to plumbing the depths of emotion that lie in psychological and physical territories alike.
Issam Zineh
Issam Zineh is a Palestinian-American poet, editor, and public health worker. He is author of Unceded Land (Trio House Press, 2022; the87press, 2026), finalist for the Trio Award, Medal Provocateur, Housatonic Book Award, and Balcones Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook The Moment of Greatest Alienation (Ethel Press, 2021). His work appears in AGNI, The Yale Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Split This Rock, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.