Hala Alyan
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated,...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 83 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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 through different forms of displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive...
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvi, 208 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities.