Hard damage / Aria Aber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aber, Aria, author.

Series:

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry.

Prairie Schooner book prize in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 pages).

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

Summary:

Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers theconsequences of these relations-in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and modern-day Islamic terrorism-for her family and the world at large. Invested in and suspicious of the pain of family and the shame of selfhood, the speakers of these richly evocative and musical poems mourn the magnitude of citizenship asa state of place and a state of mind. While Hard Damage is framed by free-verse poetry, the middle sections comprise a lyric essay in fragments and a long documentary poem. Aber explores Rilke in the original German, the urban melancholia of city life, inherited trauma, and displacement on both linguistic and environmental levels, while employingsurrealist and eerily domestic imagery.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496218957

1496218957

9781496218971

1496218973