The twenty-ninth year : poems / Hala Alyan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: ix, 83 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781328511942
- 1328511944
- 29th year
- Poems. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 811.6 A477 | Available | 33111009161072 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
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.
Front Cover; Front Matter; Reviews; Half Title; Other Books by this Author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Truth; Transcend; The Female of the Species; Dirty Girl; Armadillo; Gospel: Texas; Halfway to July; The Socratic Method; Oklahoma; 1999; Gospel: Rumi; New Year; The Worst Ghosts; Telling the Story Right; Call Me to Prayer; Gospel: Beirut; Nineteen in Retrograde; Pray Like You Mean It; Not a Mosque; You're Not a Girl in a Movie; Step One: Admit Powerlessness; Tattler; Common Ancestors; Chaos Theory; Honeymoon; When I Bit into the Plum the Ants Flooded Out; Instructions for a Wife, Gospel: NewlywedsGospel: Insomnia; The Temperance (XIV) Card; Even When I Listen, I'm Lying; Step Eight: Make Amends; A Love Letter to My Panic // A Love Letter to My Husband; I'm Not Speaking First; Step Four: Moral Inventory; Either I'm Coming Back or I'm Not; Unmarried; The Honest Wife; Turnpike // Ghost; Self-Portrait with No More Wine,; Step Two: Higher Power; Gospel: Diaspora; Wife in Reverse; Heirloom; I Can't Tell Which Haircut in the Photograph Is Me; Can I Apologize Now?; Ordinary Scripture; Dear Layal,; On the Death of WWE Professional Wrestler Chyna; Cliffhanger; Aleppo; Upstate I; Upstate I; Upstate II; Thirty.