The twenty-ninth year : poems / Hala Alyan.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781328511942
- ISBN: 1328511944
- Physical Description: ix, 83 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
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- Subject:
- American poetry > 21st century.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
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- 4 of 4 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 811.6 ALY (Text) | 37810435751119 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
