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The good Arabs : poems / Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.T356 G66 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Eli, 1994- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian poetry--21st century.
- Canadian poetry.
- Arabs--Canada--Poetry.
- Arabs.
- Trans people--Poetry.
- Trans people.
- Homosexuality--Poetry.
- Homosexuality.
- Transgender people.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 101 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Quebec : Metonymy Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Montreal balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in THE GOOD ARABS ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on the city bus. The collection is an interlocking and rich offering of the speaker's communities, geographical surroundings both expansive and precise, and family both biological and chosen. THE GOOD ARABS gifts the reader with insight into cycles and repetition in ourselves and our broken nations. This genre-defying collection maps Arab and trans identity through the immensity of experience felt in one body, the sorrow of citizens let down by their countries, and the garbage crisis in Lebanon. Ultimately, it shows how we might love amid dismay, adore the pungent and the ugly, and exist in our multiplicity across spaces."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Section One Are We Noc Arabs?
- Conversations with Arabs
- Home = Garbage
- don't let me be lonely
- The space between you & us
- The Tradition
- Maa al Salama
- Arguileh breath
- Fucked in english
- Who Gives Us the Permission?
- It was
- Grey
- 850 million tonnes
- We Are Not at Home Here
- And if my people
- The Cycle
- Section Two Do You Run When You Hear the Sound of a Loud Crack?
- Do You Run When You Hear the Sound of a Loud Crack?
- Section Three In the Heart of the Heart of More Garbage
- The Good Arabs
- underwater
- In the Heart of the Heart of More Garbage
- We count sheep to fall asleep
- It Could Never Be That Easy
- Yt ppl think I'm Yt Like
- When I lived on Acadie
- Reading Wanting in Arabic
- thirty-one lines for you
- They Used to Call Her
- This Is Not a Poem
- Changing That Which Seems Immovable
- The Tradition pt. II
- In the Lion's Mouth.
- Notes:
- Arab American Book Award - Poetry, Honorable Mention, 2022
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Eli, 1994- Good Arabs.
- ISBN:
- 1999058895
- 9781999058890
- OCLC:
- 1255462096
- Publisher Number:
- 99989650393
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