Four Cities

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by Hala Alyan

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" Following her mesmerizing debut collection Atrium, Hala Alyan offers a sustaining and luminous meditation on love and war in Four Cities. Baghdad, New York, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Detroit and Paris are just names on maps, 'for when maps fold and countries vanish... it is just you and the dust you carry on your skin.' These gritty, volatile communities dissolve into dreamscapes, redolent with lemons, dazzled with snow, awake to conversation and kisses. The sky is always open for possibilities: fireworks, moonlight, the call to prayer, dandelions parachuting through the air. What a splendid majestic if troubled world we find ourselves in love in."
-- D.A. Powell, author of Chronic and Cocktails

Publisher:: Black Lawrence Press
ISBN:: 9781625579393
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 104
Authors:: Hala Alyan
Published Date:: 2015-09-01
Language:: English

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About Hala Alyan

A Palestinian-American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist, Hala Alyan was born in Carbondale, Illinois, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BA from the American University of Beirut, an MA from Columbia University, and a PsyD from Rutgers University. Her poetry collections include Atrium (Three Rooms Press, 2012), winner of the 2013 Arab American Book Award; Four Cities (Black Lawrence Press, 2015); Hijra (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; The Twenty-Ninth Year (Mariner Books, 2019); and The Moon That Turns You Back (Ecco, 2024). Her novel Salt Houses (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She received a Lannan Foundation Fellowship.

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