Lunette Press
اﻟﺪﻛﺎن Al-Doukan (The Shop)
Layla Azmi Goushey
2025
Woven of many texts and many voices—lyric poems (her own as well as selections from Maja Sadikovic), oral testimonies from working-class Arab immigrants, documents culled from her personal archive, and her own letters written in grief, contestation and solidarity—Layla Azmi Goushey’s The Shop is an astonishing example of poetry as social and historical investigation. In Goushey's work, the making of poetry has much in common with the daily labor of working class exiles and immigrants. “Heritage” in this collection is not a commodity easily gathered or celebrated, but a tapestry that must be rewoven from difficult, paradoxical, sometimes dreadful, often absurd experiences. The “shop” — the gas station, the auto shop, the street stall in the sacred city—appears both as literal space of work and encounter, as well as a metaphor for the making of a more just historical record.
OrderAbout the Author
Layla Azmi Goushey is a writer, scholar, educator, and editor whose work bridges literary creativity, critical pedagogy, memory studies, and the Indigenous and diasporic cultures of Southwest Asia and North Africa. Her journal articles, essays, poems, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in various academic and literary journals and anthologies. She is the founder and editor of Baladi Magazine, a multilingual literary platform that explores the past, engages the present, and imagines the future.
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Lunette Press chapbooks are printed in a limited edition. Each book is hand-stitched and bound, providing artisanal quality. The cover features a full-color design, while the interior pages are printed with pigment ink on high-quality paper. Archival materials are used.
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