The grandchild of Holocaust survivors, Elana Bell was selected by Fanny Howe to receive the 2011 Walt Whitman Award for her manuscript Eyes, Stones... More >
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We ate labneh and bread in your tents
When we had no water
we drew it from your well
Your camels carried the sand to build our houses
you built them—your hands—
Fig-tree prickly-pear human-flood
You were the wasteland we made bloom
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