1. Author is strongly established in the Arab American literary community: he is the editor of Inclined to Speak, an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry; he is a series editor of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize; and he is the recipient of the Arab American Book Award 2. Author is widely regarded by major poets Marilyn Hacker, Fady Joudah, and Naomi Shihab Nye 3. Strong blurbs from major poets Diane Seuss, Kaveh Akbar, and Wayne Miller 4. Texas Public Radio interview and Texas Observer review forthcoming 5. Book's narrative-driven and direct poems are inviting and thoughtful; its…mehr
1. Author is strongly established in the Arab American literary community: he is the editor of Inclined to Speak, an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry; he is a series editor of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize; and he is the recipient of the Arab American Book Award 2. Author is widely regarded by major poets Marilyn Hacker, Fady Joudah, and Naomi Shihab Nye 3. Strong blurbs from major poets Diane Seuss, Kaveh Akbar, and Wayne Miller 4. Texas Public Radio interview and Texas Observer review forthcoming 5. Book's narrative-driven and direct poems are inviting and thoughtful; its engagement with ethical questions of the everyday will appeal to a wide readership
Hayan Charara is the author of These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit. He is a poet, children¿s book author, essayist, and editor. His other collections of poems include Something Sinister, The Sadness of Others, and The Alchemist¿s Diary. His children¿s book, The Three Lucys, received the New Voices Award Honor, and he edited Inclined to Speak, an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry. With Fady Joudah, he is also a series editor of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. His honors include a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lucille Joy Prize in Poetry from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, the John Clare Prize, and the Arab American Book Award. He lives in Houston.
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CONTENTS Self-Portrait in Retrospect Under the Sun Older Some Sentences Porch Haiku Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms Neighbors Empathy Terrorism Self-Portrait as Trees On the Death of Other People's Children All These Questions You Ask Self-Portrait with Woman on the Subway The Problem with Me Is the Problem with You Unresolved Haiku Unresolved Beautiful Morning Being a Mother and Father Getting By How It Happened Old Couple Summertime Seeing Our Mother Years After She Died Condolence Then Apology High School Angst, High School Tryst The River in Winter What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger // Prelude Fugue // Self-Portrait After a Funeral Bees, Honeycombs, Honey The Symbolic Life Self-Portrait as Scientific Observation The Day Phil Levine Died The Prize Mean Sibling Rivalry At the Party To the Poet Self-Portrait with Empty Pack of Cigarettes Across the Country from a Cemetery in Michigan Sincerity Suddenly and Unexpectedly and from No Clearly Understood Cause Self-Portrait with Curses at 35,000 Feet Michigan The Night the Dog Died Self-Portrait with Dog, Possum, Newspaper, and Shovel The Other Woman Self-Portrait with Cassette Player Personal Political Poem Nothing Happened in 1999 That Summer That Year During the Heat Wave 1979 Ode on an Abandoned House Apokaluptein // Acknowledgments Notes
CONTENTS Self-Portrait in Retrospect Under the Sun Older Some Sentences Porch Haiku Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms Neighbors Empathy Terrorism Self-Portrait as Trees On the Death of Other People's Children All These Questions You Ask Self-Portrait with Woman on the Subway The Problem with Me Is the Problem with You Unresolved Haiku Unresolved Beautiful Morning Being a Mother and Father Getting By How It Happened Old Couple Summertime Seeing Our Mother Years After She Died Condolence Then Apology High School Angst, High School Tryst The River in Winter What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger // Prelude Fugue // Self-Portrait After a Funeral Bees, Honeycombs, Honey The Symbolic Life Self-Portrait as Scientific Observation The Day Phil Levine Died The Prize Mean Sibling Rivalry At the Party To the Poet Self-Portrait with Empty Pack of Cigarettes Across the Country from a Cemetery in Michigan Sincerity Suddenly and Unexpectedly and from No Clearly Understood Cause Self-Portrait with Curses at 35,000 Feet Michigan The Night the Dog Died Self-Portrait with Dog, Possum, Newspaper, and Shovel The Other Woman Self-Portrait with Cassette Player Personal Political Poem Nothing Happened in 1999 That Summer That Year During the Heat Wave 1979 Ode on an Abandoned House Apokaluptein // Acknowledgments Notes
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