The Twenty-Ninth Year

Hala Alyan

• Editorial: Ecco
• Año: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781328512727
• Categoría: Literatur
• Categoría: Poesie des Nahen Ostens

Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses. 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.

Índice

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Truth
• Transcend
• The Female of the Species
• Dirty Girl
• Armadillo
• Gospel: Texas
• Halfway to July
• The Socratic Method
• Oklahoma
• 1999
• Gospel: Rumi
• New Year
• The Worst Ghosts
• Telling the Story Right
• Call Me to Prayer
• Gospel: Beirut
• Nineteen in Retrograde
• Pray Like You Mean It
• Not a Mosque
• You’re Not a Girl in a Movie
• Step One: Admit Powerlessness
• Tattler
• Common Ancestors
• Chaos Theory
• Honeymoon
• When I Bit into the Plum the Ants Flooded Out
• Instructions for a Wife
• Gospel: Newlyweds
• Gospel: Insomnia
• The Temperance (XIV) Card
• Even When I Listen, I’m Lying
• Step Eight: Make Amends
• A Love Letter to My Panic // A Love Letter to My Husband
• I’m Not Speaking First
• Step Four: Moral Inventory
• Either I’m Coming Back or I’m Not
• Unmarried
• The Honest Wife
• Turnpike // Ghost
• Self-Portrait with No More Wine,
• Step Two: Higher Power
• Gospel: Diaspora
• Wife in Reverse
• Heirloom
• I Can’t Tell Which Haircut in the Photograph Is Me
• Can I Apologize Now?
• Ordinary Scripture
• Dear Layal,
• On the Death of WWE Professional Wrestler Chyna
• Cliffhanger
• Aleppo
• Upstate I
• Upstate II
• Thirty
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Connect with HMH