The Twenty-Ninth Year
eBook - ePub

The Twenty-Ninth Year

Poems

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Twenty-Ninth Year

Poems

About this book

Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses.
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.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
  • Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
  • Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
Both plans are available with monthly, semester, or annual billing cycles.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Middle Eastern Poetry. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Ecco
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781328511942
eBook ISBN
9781328512727

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Truth
  6. Transcend
  7. The Female of the Species
  8. Dirty Girl
  9. Armadillo
  10. Gospel: Texas
  11. Halfway to July
  12. The Socratic Method
  13. Oklahoma
  14. 1999
  15. Gospel: Rumi
  16. New Year
  17. The Worst Ghosts
  18. Telling the Story Right
  19. Call Me to Prayer
  20. Gospel: Beirut
  21. Nineteen in Retrograde
  22. Pray Like You Mean It
  23. Not a Mosque
  24. You’re Not a Girl in a Movie
  25. Step One: Admit Powerlessness
  26. Tattler
  27. Common Ancestors
  28. Chaos Theory
  29. Honeymoon
  30. When I Bit into the Plum the Ants Flooded Out
  31. Instructions for a Wife
  32. Gospel: Newlyweds
  33. Gospel: Insomnia
  34. The Temperance (XIV) Card
  35. Even When I Listen, I’m Lying
  36. Step Eight: Make Amends
  37. A Love Letter to My Panic // A Love Letter to My Husband
  38. I’m Not Speaking First
  39. Step Four: Moral Inventory
  40. Either I’m Coming Back or I’m Not
  41. Unmarried
  42. The Honest Wife
  43. Turnpike // Ghost
  44. Self-Portrait with No More Wine,
  45. Step Two: Higher Power
  46. Gospel: Diaspora
  47. Wife in Reverse
  48. Heirloom
  49. I Can’t Tell Which Haircut in the Photograph Is Me
  50. Can I Apologize Now?
  51. Ordinary Scripture
  52. Dear Layal,
  53. On the Death of WWE Professional Wrestler Chyna
  54. Cliffhanger
  55. Aleppo
  56. Upstate I
  57. Upstate II
  58. Thirty
  59. Acknowledgments
  60. About the Author
  61. Connect with HMH