The Blond Texts & the Age of Embers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780976014294)

"Throughout her writing career, Tueni remained fiercely independent and unattached to fashionable schools of thought. Her fondness for her native land is intertwined with her need to reflect upon the realities and conditions that surrounded her. The operations at work in her poetry--from the varied linguistic play to the jarring juxtapositions, from the ambiguity of certain passages to the playful manipulations of syntax--are intensely original and delightfully strange. Scenes from her own childhood accompany imagery drawn from Christian mythology and rituals, while tales of lovers scorned are juxtaposed with those of gods abandoned. Revelatory descriptions of springs, mountains and street-scenes accompany metaphysical contemplations, themselves masked by layers of striking imagery. Forceful and meditative, two books that present internal and emotional landscapes as well as a sensual if fragmented portrait of her urban and natural surroundings."
--Amir Parsa

Author: Nadia Tueni
ISBN-10: 0976014297
ISBN-13: 9780976014294
Publisher: Upset Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2013
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d