Bouchaib Gadir

The Immigrant’s Verses: Mouths Filled with Salt Sameh Publishing, 2022

In his book of poetry, The Immigrant’s Verses: Mouths Filled with Salt, Bouchaib Gadir tell stories about immigrants—displaced and marginalized—in New Orleans, Spain, and France. His collection of poems is a display of mixed emotion, loneliness, and marginalization felt by migrants with a sense of belonging to a host land or to their native cultures.

While marking contrasts between immigrants’ dreams and the harsh realities within which they find themselves, these poems are written in the spirit of solidarity with women’s conditions, immigration, and minority populations, in the hope of making the world a better place for all.