Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems, Hardcover/Lubna Safi

Your Blue and the Quiet Lament records the textures of grief after a cousin's murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative of arrest, imprisonment, and torture in Syria and interweave the difficulties a family experiences in the diaspora. Shifting between the death of poet Federico García Lorca and that of her cousin, Lubna's poetry contends with personal loss by distancing the meaning of one death through the intermediary of another. Yet the distortion of distance is already there--in the language, in the geographic space, in time, in the grief itself--tinged with blue. As she recalls childhood memories and imagines conversations with her dead cousin, Lubna's poetry whispers, calls out, sings, laments, pens letters, photographs, sketches, paints, and prays in an attempt to exhaust grief.

Colecție

Walt McDonald First-Book Poetry

Dimensiuni

230 x 152

Autor

Lubna Safi

Copertă

Hardcover

An

2022

Pagini

96

Limbă

English

Editură

Texas Tech University Press

Greutate

227 g