The Twenty-Ninth Year

by Alyan, Hala
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ISBN: 9781328511942
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"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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Alyan, Hala
  • ISBN: 9781328511942
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.80 x 0.40
  • Number Of Pages: 96
  • Publication Year: 2019

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