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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.
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.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Truth
- Transcend
- The Female of the Species
- Dirty Girl
- Armadillo
- Gospel: Texas
- Halfway to July
- The Socratic Method
- Oklahoma
- 1999
- Gospel: Rumi
- New Year
- The Worst Ghosts
- Telling the Story Right
- Call Me to Prayer
- Gospel: Beirut
- Nineteen in Retrograde
- Pray Like You Mean It
- Not a Mosque
- You’re Not a Girl in a Movie
- Step One: Admit Powerlessness
- Tattler
- Common Ancestors
- Chaos Theory
- Honeymoon
- When I Bit into the Plum the Ants Flooded Out
- Instructions for a Wife
- Gospel: Newlyweds
- Gospel: Insomnia
- The Temperance (XIV) Card
- Even When I Listen, I’m Lying
- Step Eight: Make Amends
- A Love Letter to My Panic // A Love Letter to My Husband
- I’m Not Speaking First
- Step Four: Moral Inventory
- Either I’m Coming Back or I’m Not
- Unmarried
- The Honest Wife
- Turnpike // Ghost
- Self-Portrait with No More Wine,
- Step Two: Higher Power
- Gospel: Diaspora
- Wife in Reverse
- Heirloom
- I Can’t Tell Which Haircut in the Photograph Is Me
- Can I Apologize Now?
- Ordinary Scripture
- Dear Layal,
- On the Death of WWE Professional Wrestler Chyna
- Cliffhanger
- Aleppo
- Upstate I
- Upstate II
- Thirty
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH