Twenty-Ninth Year (Paperback)

"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." -LitHub 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.

General

Imprint:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2019
Authors:	Hala Alyan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-1-328-51194-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-328-51194-4
Barcode:	9781328511942

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