Towards a Retreat

Samaa Abdurraqib’s Towards a Retreat is a masterful work of poetic craft and emotional depth, crafted with an ear attuned to the interior and a gaze firmly fixed on the world’s ruptures and refusals. Towards a Retreat resists easy categorization and instead creates its own emotional and poetic landscape. With each poem, Abdurraqib invites the reader into a space of clarity, reckoning, and deep listening. This collection honors complexity. It is both a meditation and a call to attention.