Muslim melancholia / Samina Hadi-Tabassum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hadi-Tabassum, Samina, 1971-

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

68 pages; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe, New Mexico : Red Mountian Press, [2017].

Summary:

"Muslim Melancholia constructs a narrative grounded in history and its hidden trajectories. The poems use of historical fragments creates a recognizable collage of images, from present day immigrant enclaves to the appropriation of India’s past and to America in the 1970s. Place is an integral part of these poems and the everyday experiences in these places constitute the given Muslim world in complex and perhaps contradictory ways. The poems are rooted in the meaning of these places—some inviting and others threatening—and how places are symbols reminding us of the common values that we share as well as our differences."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

I Fisherman's Rib 9

Purdah 11

A Thousand Points 12

Golconda Fort 13

The Lovers 14

Mongolian Marks 15

There Are Four of Them 16

Beg, Borrow or Steal 18

Climbing The Mountain 19

From Akbar the Great to Queen Elizabeth the First 20

From Abe Lincoln to Akbar the Great 22

II Broken Rib 23

Page Not Found 25

Lonely at Ramadan 26

The Valley of Peace 27

The Wahabi in Me 28

Raja is Reign and Devi is Divine 29

A Ghazal for Hadiya 30

Muslim Melancholia 32

Google Me 33

The Desi Punnett 34

Language Broker and Mother Stroker 35

Jovan Musk Oil 36

Wallah Wallah 37

Happiness Will Come For Me 39

Medicate Me 40

III Knotted Rib 41

The Alchemist 43

The Girl with the Pearl Jhumka 44

My Parabolic Self 46

Tree Love 47

A² + B² = C² 48

Willy Lomanistan 49

A Bed is a Bed 50

Verdigris 51

Dead Greens 52

Rick Springfield 53

Bang, Bang, You're Dead 55

Tarot Girl Next Door 56

April Snow 57

My Corpus Callosum 58

Restless Leg Syndrome 59

Dwelling 61

A Stone's Throw Away 62

Our Genus Homo 63

As They Lay Dying 65

White Washed Blue 66

The Registry 67.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9780997310283

0997310286

OCLC:

983824303

Publisher Number:

99976678963