"To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge... Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma. In a frightening two-year saga of a tumor and the 'flooding' it caused, Chatti finds not disassociation but deeper association with her own experience." –Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times "Chatti turns fear and shame into empowerment in her unflinching debut... [She] translates a gritty, traumatizing experience into a hypnotic, transcendental topography of the human spirit." –Publishers Weekly, starred review "Tunisian American poet Leila Chatti's powerful collection of poems centers her faith, health, embodiment, shame and womanhood." –Ms. Magazine