Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan

OVERVIEW

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.

PRODUCT INF

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco (January 29, 2019)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1328511944
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1328511942
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.24 x 9 inches