Banah El Ghadbanah

La Syrena: Visions of a Syrian Mermaid from Space (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize
LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore. My home is Syria and Syria for me is like the sea. I want nothing more than to jump in and swim around forever. In Syria I am declared wanted, like so many of us displaced lunar divas. The longing I feel is the deepest kind. It could crack the whole earth open. I am a Lumerian from Ancient Sumeria, a southern space creature in a northern world, LA SYRNENA, zhe is my destiny.

To be queer and syrienne and femme is like being a mermaid in space. You are doubly displaced-both from the water and from the land. You come from the ancient waters of another planet, and you float among the stars, searching for a place to call home. On your journey you meet other displaced lunar beings and they remind you of your ancestors. Together you form satellite cartographies, you become a dance of ancestral water and the lush starry landscape where possibility lives.

In this collection, each poem flows like water on the page. The author weaves in stories ¿ mantras ¿ revolutionary messages ¿ the movement of arabic letters ¿ the memory of Sumerian cuneiform. This book is a hybrid creature between poem-story-form that crosses genres like it crosses dimensions. In this work, you are the mermaid. You are the forever migrant, a traveler between the oceanic and the extraterrestrial, across continents and planets. You are a time traveler, and you speak many languages. You are LA SYRENA, conjuring your own space to feel free.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dzanc Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781950539796
• Artikelnr.: 66213605

Autorenporträt

Banah is an extraterrestial from Syria raised in the u.s. south. Zhe is a soothsayer, a sheikha-in-training, a mermaid from space. Banah is wanted by the Syrian regime for 50 million lira for telling their family's story of exile and resistance. Zhe has a PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego, and writes about Syrian women's poetics in revolution, siege, and diaspora.