The moon that turns you back /
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection, a multiplicity of voices, bodies and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form, small banal moments of daily life...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection, a multiplicity of voices, bodies and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form, small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body, and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? When you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest? |
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| Physical Description: | 100 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780063317475 0063317478 |