| The Twenty-Ninth Year Contributor(s): Alyan, Hala (Author) |
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ISBN: 1328511944 ISBN-13: 9781328511942 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Middle Eastern - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Lgbt |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2018024865 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.8" W x 8.8" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Sex & Gender - Gay - Holiday - Valentine's Day - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." -LitHub 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alyan, Hala: - HALA ALYAN is an award-winning Palestinian American poet and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including the Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, and Colorado Review. She lives in New York. |