Salim is a poetry collection about where we come from and the legacy we're born to build. The collection rides from the streets of Baghdad to the sidewalks of Los Angeles, tracing one family's journey across generations and continents. These poetry pieces explore what it means to be caught between two worlds: the one you left and the one that doesn't quite feel like home. Salim parallels the decaying state of a country that once promised hope with the conflicted mind of a thirty-year-old writer grappling with his own personal turmoils and relationship with the world around him. Salim is about family, building a new foundation to grow from, and the search for self. From Iraq to America, from ancestral memory to the Hollywood dream, these poems detail the writer's path to understand his place in a modern wasteland, and his search for peace in a maddened world.