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Dear God. Dear bones. Dear yellow. / Noor Hindi.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.I537 D43 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hindi, Noor, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 66 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Dear God, dear bones, dear yellow : poems
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2022.
- Summary:
- "In this defiant and urgent collection, Palestinian American poet Noor Hindi explores Arab womanhood, migration, colonialism, and queerness with evocative lyricism."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I
- Self-Interrogation
- Thirst
- In Which the White Woman on My Thesis Defense Asks Me about Witness
- Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying
- I Once Looked in a Mirror but Couldn't See My Body
- Breaking [News]
- Palestine
- Broken Light Bulb Flickering Away
- Self-Portrait as Arab/Muslim Teenager in an All-White High School
- Good Muslims Are All Around Us
- A Day, A Life: When a Medic Was Killed in Gaza, Was It an Accident?
- Grief Symphony
- I Buried My Brother Last Winter
- All My Plants Are Dead
- II. AMERICAN BEINGS
- Confession
- A Prayer
- A Question
- USCIS Trip #1: A Revision
- A Quick Study of the Word Existence
- Tapping on the Glass
- USCIS Trip #2: Violation
- USCIS Trip #3: A Test
- A Chaos of Semantics
- A Home
- USCIS Trip #4: A Photo
- III
- Poem in Which My Mother Tells Me Not to Get a Pap Smear Because It Might Tear My Nonexistent Hymen
- Virginity for Sale
- In a Dream, I Get Married in an Abandoned Mall
- Dangerous Business
- I Should Have Broken Up with My Ex
- Summertime
- I Call My Mother from the Moon
- The Shell of a Cactus Fruit
- Ode
- Dabke
- IV
- Pledging Allegiance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Arab American Book Award - Poetry, Honorable Mention, 2023
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781642596960
- 1642596965
- OCLC:
- 1322844959
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