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...
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Other title: | Poems. Selections 29th year. |
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Language: | English |
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Boston :
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Front Matter; Reviews; Half Title; Other Books by this Author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 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.