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“Yahya Frederickson’s rich poems–weaving a world, shaping a place of filigreed detail, savory scent, ‘little bundles of herbs’ and encounters, invite us to cross an invisible bridge. Here, in a land he is bound to through experience and marriage, a land of most ecstatic architecture, Yemen–we find gracefully created, intricate room-on-room dimensions of human lives, legacies, and linkage. May poems like these be protection for the precious spaces and breaths of attentive exchange.”–Naomi Shihab Nye
Yahya Frederickson teaches writing and literature at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Between graduate degrees he taught in Yemen, initially as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He served as a Fulbright Scholar in Syria in 2005 and in Saudi Arabia in 2011. His poetry has appeared in Arts & Letters, Black Warrior Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, CutBank, Hanging Loose, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and many other journals.
“The Gold Shop of Ba-‘Ali delivers us into an Arab world stripped of exoticism, a world made palpable by mundane reality, an ordinary world made luminous by the vision and speech of a genuinely gifted poet.”–Sam Hamill, Final Judge for the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2013
“Yahya Frederickson’s rich poems–weaving a world, shaping a place of filigreed detail, savory scent, ‘little bundles of herbs’ and encounters, invite us to cross an invisible bridge. Here, in a land he is bound to through experience and marriage, a land of most ecstatic architecture, Yemen–we find gracefully created, intricate room-on-room dimensions of human lives, legacies, and linkage. May poems like these be protection for the precious spaces and breaths of attentive exchange.”–Naomi Shihab Nye
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