The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan From the author of The Arsonists City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war. A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.These poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body—and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else When you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography HALA ALYAN is an award-winning author and poet. Her novel Salt Houses won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and was a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, the Academy of American Poets, Literary Hub, and others. Review "[Hala] Alyans fifth book of poetry grapples heroically with the fissures of family and lineage caused by displacement and migration." — Booklist (starred review)"The formally inventive and devastatingly evocative latest from Alyan (The Twenty-Ninth Year) reckons with grief, displacement, and enduring kinship. From Beirut to the U.S. to Jerusalem to Kuwait, Alyan draws from her experience as a Palestinian American to examine where ones home is under occupation and forced displacement....These powerful poems linger long in the mind." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Hala Alyan offers us a magnificent reckoning and witnessing. These poems are a dazzling achievement, singing of a body/bodies tethered to tenderness and hope, even in the face of landscapes that dont always offer ...good and patient soil." — Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders"I will read anything Hala Alyan writes, knowing always that time spent in the company of her work makes me a better reader, a better writer, a more empathetic creature. Here is a writer who wields simultaneity to fascinating, beautiful effect: poems that are simultaneously stark and lush, blunt and experimental, crackling with tension, with tenderness. The poems in The Moon That Turns You Back are some of my favorite work by one of my favorite poets. I hope to spend a long lifetime with this book." — Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die"Every line of Hala Alyans The Moon That Turns You Back drips with intentional craft, with brilliance. Halas ability to marry poetic experimentation with the deep tenderness of living makes these poems urgent, necessary, and loving. I feel honored to be alive in a time where I can read Hala Alyan, where I can devour book after book, where I can bask in her gorgeous heart. This book is a gift, those of us who encounter it should consider ourselves lucky."— Fatimah Asghar, author of If They Come For Us"A bountiful collection of poetry...spellbinding...Hala Alyan renders rich, intricate landscapes of heritage and place." — BookPage Details ISBN0063317478 Author Hala Alyan Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780063317475 Format Paperback Subtitle Poems Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Audience General Pages 112 Publication Date 2024-04-11 Imprint ECCO Press US Release Date 2024-04-11 ISBN-10 0063317478 UK Release Date 2024-04-11 DEWEY 811.6 Imprint US Ecco Publisher US HarperCollins NZ Release Date 2024-07-30 AU Release Date 2024-07-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:159285151;

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