Fetch Your Mother's Heart
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Fetch Your Mother's Heart

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Fetch Your Mother's Heart

About this book

A lesbian relationship tries to survive berzerk love, while rage swells in gas stations and living rooms around them; erupting into nationwide revolution. Set in Lebanon, this collection of poems studies the symbiotic relationship between tenderness and violence at every layer of the characters' lives, from intimacy to uprising. A fictionalised retelling of Luxx's time in Beirut during the current crisis as a British Syrian lesbian woman, the book is written in forms typical to the region including the qasida and ghazal. Powerful, dynamic and uncompromising.

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Information

Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781838021177
eBook ISBN
9781838427207
Subtopic
Poetry
chapter I

to write the wrongs of centuries, we must brew
our own tools

no physician predicted this
between major and minor notes
an itch of a bird song
& you, my dawn
grinding saffron
year
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pestle & mortar
bury in me your sigh
as our soil carries dead
in airless secrets
i hold your breath
centuries persist
men dumb & ink
my saffron grind crushes
beard & bible
to dust
all of this, embroidered in waistbands
ya zarrifa how I dress you up
petrified in gold thread
sewn by mist
we survive the long hush
i hold your breath
drench tonight’s bedsheets in sweat
wet, tip, & reaching
we open lips
exhale saffron ink
your cupped hand, gathering
they call this lesbian
I kiss your knee call you comrade
we laugh & the sound is a language that
hasn’t been written yet

majnouneh

& here we are
eating pistachios & watching
the earth become a mountain
in order to kiss one star
I crossed a continent to tell you
about Qays this is how my salt enters you
the sun devours everything
but as it falls we wow, wow
at all it gives, all wow light
orange sublime falling
refected in your face
when mist conceals its view
you need to know I will still mountain
even wandering its peaks
I cannot measure
how high this mountain rose
nor how orange
falling always renews
I will always mountain you.
You ask if mountains can fall, I say sand dune.
You ask what happened to Qays
I dust salt of your lips
& admit:
he was found alone, killed,
beside a sand dune
gazelle lapping at the ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. introduction
  8. chapter I
  9. chapter II
  10. chapter III
  11. chapter IV
  12. chapter V
  13. chapter VI
  14. notes and glossary
  15. acknowledgements
  16. liberation aka
  17. Other titles by Out-Spoken Press