The River Has Roots
Amal El-Mohtar
The River Has Roots is beautiful. The playfulness of the prose scratched the itch that This Is How You Lose The Time War left me with.
My edition, from World’s Borough Bookshop, is physically beautiful too, with vines leaking down into the pages and a vibrant, popping cover. After reading Giovanni’s Room and The Idiot, The River Has Roots was a wonderful, short and sweet burst of fresh air. Its ease is an asset; it is ninety nine pages of beautiful, joyous poetry cum prose.