Margo LaPierre on “eh·luh·jee for the ded”

Saemah Mushtaq’s adroitly crafted “el•uh•jee for the ded” forces readers to make a choice: read the spare, anaphoric unnamed “dead” route or read the greyed-out list of names. Visually, the black text set in white is easier to read; haunting, direct, with a sonic, rhythmic pulse. But it’s the names of the Palestinian children killed in the Israeli attacks on Gaza that seek to be heard from beyond their erasure.