Disbound

Poems

Hajar Hussaini (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

72 Seiten

2022
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-60938-867-6 (ISBN)

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Hajar Hussaini’s poems in Disbound scrutinize the social, political, and historical traces inherited from one’s language. The traces she finds—the flow of international commodities implied in a plosive consonant, an image of the world’s nations convening to reject the full stop—retrieve a personal history between countries (Afghanistan and the United States) and languages (Persian and English) that has been constantly disrupted and distorted by war, governments, and media. Hussaini sees the subjectivity emerging out of these traces as mirroring the governments to whom she has been subject, blurring the line between her identity and her legal identification. The poems of Disbound seek beauty and understanding in sadness and confusion, and find the chance for love in displacement, even as the space for reconciliation in politics and thought seems to get narrower.

Hajar Hussaini is an Afghan poet and literary translator. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Margins, and Pamenar Press. Hussaini lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Kuhl House Poets
Verlagsort	Iowa
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-60938-867-4 / 1609388674
ISBN-13	978-1-60938-867-6 / 9781609388676
Zustand	Neuware