You Can Be The Last Leaf: Selected Poems (libro En Inglés)

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Nombre: You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems (Libro en Inglés)
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Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat.

Art. Garlic. Taxis. Sleepy soldiers at checkpoints. The smell of trash on a winter street, before our wild rosebush, neglected / by the gate, / blooms. Lovers who dont return, the possibility that you yourself might not return. Making beds. Cleaning up vomit. Reading recipes. In You Can Be the Last Leaf, these are the ordinary and profoundsometimes tragic, sometimes dreamy, sometimes almost frivolousmoments of life under Israeli occupation.

Here, private and public domains are inseparable. Desire, loss, and violence permeate the walls of the home, the borders of the mind. And yet that mind is full of its own fierce and funny voice, its own preoccupations and strangenesses. It matters to me, writes Abu Al-Hayyat, what youre thinking now / as you coerce your kids to sleep / in the middle of shelling: whether its coming up with plans / to solve the worlds problems, plans that eliminate longing from stories, remove exhaustion from groans, or dreaming of a war / thats got no war in it, or proclaiming that I dont believe in survival.

In You Can Be the Last Leaf, Abu Al-Hayyat has created a richly textured portrait of Palestinian interiorityat once wry and romantic, worried and tenacious, and always singing itself.

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Praise for You Can Be the Last Leaf

The Palestinian poets U.S. debut gathers two decades of her intimate testimony about private life in a public war zone, where those who win by killing fewer children / are losers.New York Times
The Palestinian poets U.S. debut gathers two decades of her intimate testimony about private life in a public war zone, where those who win by killing fewer children / are losers.New York Times Al-Hayyat's latest devastating and courageous collection captures the precarious everyday lives of Palestinians with enormous empathy and glistening clarity . . . The vivid translations by Fady Joudah will jostle readers into discomfort and pin Al-Hayyat's stunning voice into their ears.Booklist

There is so much grief and laughter in this collection, loss and love, as we watch the poet over time in an unending occupation. This unceasing violence seeps into her interior world too, her home and mind. But she still fiercely demands space for desire, laughter, and hope.Pierce Alquist, Book Riot
Abu Al-Hayyat explores the broader political and geographic aspects of Palestinian life under colonial rule while at the same time interweaving the quotidian aspects of life and loss in such settings. Within these frictions of exterior trauma and private contemplations, large constraints and small freedoms, these poems soar.Chicago Review of Books

These poems are the sustaining crumbs that Al-Hayyat has strewn onto the road of our consciousness. Perhaps they will help us find our way home. Perhaps they already are home, the home we construct from the remnants of the dreams that are left to us amid the tumult of our times.Words Without Borders
"You Can Be the Last Leaf is a collection of selected poems from Abu Al-Hayyats four poetry collections . . . it gives the reader a window into the impressive journey that the poet has charted from her first poetry collection . . . This translation is necessary because Abu Al-Hayyat is fierce, impressive, and unapologetically herself. Her work takes the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions anchored in truth. In her poems, the reader experiences life as it is, with its round and broken wholeness. Abu Al-Hayyat writes in a clear and concise fashion about loss, grief, fear, hope, and love echoing her experiences as well as what she witnesses in Palestine."Tel Aviv Review of Books
What if / I find what Im looking for? asks the poet, a question both disarming and succulent in one of this collections ma

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9781571315403
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 1571315403
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Milkweed Editions
Titulo del libro: You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Abu Al-Hayyat, Maya
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 120
ISBN-13: 9781571315403
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9781571315403