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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.
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