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These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit de Hayan Charara

These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit

Autor Hayan Charara
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 apr 2022
"From Hayan Charara comes a candid new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good-a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781571315410
ISBN-10: 1571315411
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 147 x 207 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Milkweed Editions

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

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

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Prelude
Fugue

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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

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Acknowledgments
Notes