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Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body--and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? 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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. 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These testimonies are harvested from displaced landscapes, histories and languages, revealing the unsettled lives of immigrants. Using urgent, haunting language, Alyan evokes the unlikely backdrop of Palestinian bazaars and Midwestern junkyards, policed checkpoints and boisterous nightclubs. A Lebanese village burns while lovers kiss in Paris. A traveler unpacks her grief in the homes of strangers. This lyrical collection captures the interplay between adopted and imposed homes, the poignant legacy of exile.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hala Alyan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793309925418,"sku":"9781625579393","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/four-cities-2853018.jpg?v=1762151068"},{"product_id":"atrium-poems","title":"Atrium: Poems","description":"In Atrium, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan traces lines of global issues in personal spaces, with fervently original imagery, and a fierce passion and intense intimacy that echoes long after initial reading. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book received the 2013 Arab American Book of the Year Award for Poetry, an astounding achievement for a first collection. In addition, Alyan was recently tapped as a finalist in the Nazim Himet Poetry Competition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlready in her young career, Alyan has etched her mark on other award-winning poets who are universal in their praise: \"Don't miss the dazzling Hala Alyan. Wow. When she says 'the poetry like a spear, ' she isn't kidding.\" --Naomi Shihab Nye; \"Hala Alyan's poems startle us with their beautiful, enigmatic images and capture us with their passionate engagement with the world. A powerful debut.\" --Chitra Divakaruni; \"For all the stunning angularity in this vision, we do not doubt that what we are seeing and sensing here is a surprising, sharp-edged sense of the real, of a world that had been there all along, just waiting for this poet and these poems to reveal. Start to finish, these poems convey a singular vision and represent an important new voice in the international poetry arena.\" --Fred Marchant \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHala Alyan's Atrium is truly a remarkable debut by a poet of stunning virtuosity and range.","brand":"Hala Alyan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793310056490,"sku":"9780983581383","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/atrium-poems-3557306.jpg?v=1762151068"},{"product_id":"we-call-to-the-eye-the-night-love-poems-by-writers-of-arab-heritage","title":"We Call to the Eye \u0026 the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage","description":"\u003cem\u003eWe Call to the Eye and to the Night\u003c\/em\u003e is an amalgam of eminent poets --Hayan Charara, Leila Chatti, Nathalie Handal, Fady Joudah, and Naomi Shihab Nye, among them--and those who have just begun to make their mark. 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