Doctrinal Shuffle

By Hassan Melehy

In Doctrinal Shuffle, Hassan Melehy composes poems of remarkable intelligence and quiet emotional force. These are meditations that move fluidly between personal memory, history, politics, and philosophy, finding in each the fragile, persistent traces of human connection. Melehy possesses an extraordinary ability to transform the language of institutions, commerce, and civic life into lyric inquiry, revealing unexpected tenderness beneath systems that often seem designed to erase it. His poems are at once deeply reflective and strikingly contemporary, balancing wit, compassion, and formal precision while asking what remains of identity, love, ancestry, and belonging amid the machinery of the modern world. Doctrinal Shuffle is a rich and rewarding collection from a poet whose vision continues to expand the possibilities of the lyric.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1969900288
• ISBN13: 9781969900280
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"