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The twenty-ninth year : poems / Hala Alyan.
Van Pelt Library PS3601.L92 T94 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alyan, Hala, 1986- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- POETRY / American / General.
- PSYCHOLOGY / Ethnopsychology.
- POETRY / Middle Eastern.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- Local Subjects:
- POETRY / American / General.
- PSYCHOLOGY / Ethnopsychology.
- POETRY / Middle Eastern.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 83 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- 29th year
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Other Format:
- Online version: Alyan, Hala, 1986- Twenty-ninth year.
- ISBN:
- 9781328511942
- 1328511944
- OCLC:
- 1039188705
- Publisher Number:
- 40028823194
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