Elegy for My Tongue - Husain, Saba
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In Saba Husain's Elegy for My Tongue, the everyday is always in conversation with the enormous-with the complexities of immigration, national identity, mortality, language and faith. The simplicity of a grandmother helping her grandson study for a test becomes a meditation on family history, discovering how "paper remembers a steaming cup of black tea/ with cardamom and milk, / and the glide of a fountain pen." Or a clothesline whipping in the wind, "flinging clothes stiff from the sun/ into the air like/ mammoth butterflies," leads to the knowledge of the private self within the enormity of…mehr

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In Saba Husain's Elegy for My Tongue, the everyday is always in conversation with the enormous-with the complexities of immigration, national identity, mortality, language and faith. The simplicity of a grandmother helping her grandson study for a test becomes a meditation on family history, discovering how "paper remembers a steaming cup of black tea/ with cardamom and milk, / and the glide of a fountain pen." Or a clothesline whipping in the wind, "flinging clothes stiff from the sun/ into the air like/ mammoth butterflies," leads to the knowledge of the private self within the enormity of family and history, the self that almost wants to be revealed. This book spans nations and languages, generations, and the tiniest moments of insight and discovery. Saba Husain writes with musical intelligence, with grace and clarity that seem almost effortless. This is a terrific book, one that I will return to with pleasure. - Kevin Prufer, The Fears
Autorenporträt
Saba Husain is a Pakistani-born American poet. Her poems can be found in literary journals, including Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Third Coast, and On the Seawall. Her awards include first place in the 2022 Spring Equinox Hot Poet Poetry Contest, the 2020 Editor's Choice Award from Lamar University Press and the Center for History and Culture, and the 2014 Lorene Pouncey Award at the Houston Poetry Fest. She holds a day job and has served on the board of Mutabilis Press since 2019. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Elegy for My Tongue is her first full-length poetry collection.