The Twenty-Ninth Year (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781328511942)

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.

Author: Hala Alyan
ISBN-10: 1328511944
ISBN-13: 9781328511942
Publisher: Ecco Press
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2019
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 02/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 11/19/2018
Library Journal 01/01/2019 pg. 78
Booklist 01/01/2019 pg. 32
BookPage 01/01/2019