A lesbian relationship tries to survive berzerk love, while rage swells in gas stations and living rooms around them; erupting into nationwide revolution. Set in Lebanon, this collection of poems studies the symbiotic relationship between tenderness and violence at every layer of the characters' lives, from intimacy to uprising. A fictionalised retelling of Luxx's time in Beirut during the current crisis as a British Syrian lesbian woman, the book is written in forms typical to the region including the qasida and ghazal. Powerful, dynamic and uncompromising.
to write the wrongs of centuries, we must brew our own tools
no physician predicted this
between major and minor notes
an itch of a bird song
& you, my dawn
grinding saffron
year
pestle & mortar
bury in me your sigh
as our soil carries dead
in airless secrets
i hold your breath
centuries persist
men dumb & ink
my saffron grind crushes
beard & bible
to dust
all of this, embroidered in waistbands
ya zarrifa how I dress you up
petrified in gold thread
sewn by mist
we survive the long hush
i hold your breath
drench tonightâs bedsheets in sweat
wet, tip, & reaching
we open lips
exhale saffron ink
your cupped hand, gathering
they call this lesbian
I kiss your knee call you comrade
we laugh & the sound is a language that
hasnât been written yet
majnouneh
& here we are
eating pistachios & watching
the earth become a mountain
in order to kiss one star
I crossed a continent to tell you
about Qays this is how my salt enters you
the sun devours everything
but as it falls we wow, wow
at all it gives, all wow light
orange sublime falling
refected in your face
when mist conceals its view
you need to know I will still mountain
even wandering its peaks
I cannot measure
how high this mountain rose
nor how orange
falling always renews
I will always mountain you.
You ask if mountains can fall, I say sand dune.
You ask what happened to Qays
I dust salt of your lips
& admit:
he was found alone, killed,
beside a sand dune
gazelle lapping at the ...
Table des matiĂšres
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
introduction
chapter I
chapter II
chapter III
chapter IV
chapter V
chapter VI
notes and glossary
acknowledgements
liberation aka
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Normes de citation pour Fetch Your Mother's Heart
APA 6 Citation
Luxx, lisa. (2021). Fetch Your Motherâs Heart (1st ed.). Outspoken Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2388462/fetch-your-mothers-heart-pdf (Original work published 2021)
Luxx, lisa (2021) Fetch Your Motherâs Heart. 1st edn. Outspoken Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2388462/fetch-your-mothers-heart-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).
