Rubaʼiyat for the time of apricots : a poem /
"This book length poem comprises three major interwoven threads: "Ahli", an auto/biographical thread about my Lebanese heritage; "Astura", a grim tale linking climate change and the oppression of women, and "Ana", a reflection on identity, language, and writing. To...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
| Language Notes: | Text in English; includes some text in Arabic. |
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada :
Frontenac House Poetry,
[2018]
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| Summary: | "This book length poem comprises three major interwoven threads: "Ahli", an auto/biographical thread about my Lebanese heritage; "Astura", a grim tale linking climate change and the oppression of women, and "Ana", a reflection on identity, language, and writing. To tell a story of my mother, her sisters, and their mother; a story of traditions, gesture, ritual, transformation, and self, is to persist against the erasure of the nuanced and tenacious feminine histories that co-exist with our troubled present and its bland stereotypes. Like a seed, a family story houses its ancestors, and the diversity--genetic and experiential--that equips us to thrive in a multitude of possible futures. Written in quatrains, called "rubaʼiyat" in Arabic, from the word for "four", each stanza of this poem is self-contained, yet converses with adjacent stanzas to build a narrative. The repetition of phrases across stanzas, and the studding of the text with Arabic words, combine to create a layered, incantatory quality evoking the complexity of Arabic oral poetry."-- |
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| Item Description: | "Quartet 2018"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Physical Description: | 59 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index (page 57-58). |
| ISBN: | 1927823811 9781927823811 |