| War / Torn Contributor(s): Namir, Hasan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1771664932 ISBN-13: 9781771664936 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Lgbt - Poetry | Middle Eastern - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.4" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay - Cultural Region - Middle East - Holiday - Valentine's Day |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 2020 Stonewall Book Award - Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Book Lambda Literary Award-winner Hasan Namir';s debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity--the performance and sense of belonging they delineate and draw together. Namir summons prayer, violence, and the sensuality of love, revisiting tenets of Islam and dictates of war to break the barriers between the profane and the sacred. Praise for War / Torn: War / Torn mourns, loves and burns all the derogatory impulses of our continuous present. This book is of and against our time. War / Torn is a breathless elegy in the most defiantly tender poetics you can imagine. --Jordan Scott, author of Night & Ox, and winner of the Latner Poetry Prize by the Writer's Trust of Canada War / Torn reminds us of how dexterous and wholly embracing poetry can be. In the hands of Hasan Namir, poetry spans from origin stories to the afterlife; it holds blessings and erotic provocations, fear and forgiveness, and tangled tangled love. --Amber Dawn, author of Sodom Road Exit |
Contributor Bio(s): Namir, Hasan: - Hasan Namir was born in Iraq. He graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BA in English and received the Ying Chen Creative Writing Student Award. He is the author of God in Pink (2015), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction and was chosen as one of the Top 100 Books of 2015 by The Globe and Mail. His work has also been featured on Huffington Post, Shaw TV, Airbnb, and in the film God in Pink: A Documentary. He lives with his husband in Vancouver. |