Bibliograph

The twenty-ninth year, poems, Hala Alyan

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The twenty-ninth year, poems, Hala Alyan

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

The twenty-ninth year

Oclc number

1039188705

Responsibility statement

Hala Alyan

Sub title

poems

Summary

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

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29th year

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