Twenty-Ninth Year (eBook)

Poems

Hala Alyan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
96 Seiten
HMH Books (Verlag)
978-1-328-51272-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses. For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone; from alcoholism to recovery; from a single woman to a wife. This collection summons breathtaking chaos, one that seeps into the bones of these odes, the shape of these elegies. A vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love and joy, The Twenty-Ninth Year is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• ISBN-10: 1-328-51272-X / 132851272X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-328-51272-7 / 9781328512727