Your Blue and the Quiet Lament - Poems (Hardcover)

Your Blue and the Quiet Lament records the textures of grief after a cousin's murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative of arrest, imprisonment, and torture in Syria and interweave the difficulties a family experiences in the diaspora. Shifting between the death of poet Federico García Lorca and that of her cousin, Lubna's poetry contends with personal loss by distancing the meaning of one death through the proxy of another. Yet the distortion of distance is already there—in the language, in the geographic space, in time, in the grief itself—tinged with blue. As she recalls childhood memories and imagines conversations with her dead cousin, Lubna's poetry whispers, calls out, sings, laments, pens letters, photographs, sketches, paints, and prays in an attempt to exhaust grief.

General

Imprint:	Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry
Release date:	June 2023
Authors:	Lubna Safi • Rachel Mennies
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-1-68283-139-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-68283-139-6
Barcode:	9781682831397

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