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You Can Be the Last Leaf de Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

You Can Be the Last Leaf

Autor Maya Abu Al-Hayyat Traducere de Fady Joudah
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mai 2022
  • Author has been widely published in Jerusalem, as well as in the Guardian, the Irish Times, and Literary Hub, and You Can Be the Last Leaf is the first time her poems are translated into English and released as a collected works to a U.S. market
    • Translator is a widely acclaimed poet and translator of Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Zaqtan, and Amjad Nasser; he is the recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize, a PEN USA award for translation, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
    • Book's engagement with violence, borders, motherhood, global feminism, and Palestinian experiences provides opportunities for wide readership
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    Specificații

    ISBN-13: 9781571315403
    ISBN-10: 1571315403
    Pagini: 120
    Dimensiuni: 137 x 212 x 10 mm
    Greutate: 0.16 kg
    Editura: Milkweed Editions

    Notă biografică

    Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is the author of You Can Be the Last Leaf. She is also the editor of The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction and a contributor to A Bird Is Not a Stone: An Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry. Her work has been published in The Guardian, the Irish Times, and Literary Hub. She is the director of the Palestine Writing Workshop, an institution that seeks to encourage reading in Palestinian communities through creative writing projects and storytelling with children and teachers. Abu Al-Hayyat lives in Jerusalem and works in Ramallah.

    Fady Joudah is the translator of You Can Be the Last Leaf. He is also the author of five collections of poems, including, most recently, Tethered to Stars and Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He has translated from the Arabic collections by Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Zaqtan, and Amjad Nasser, and is the coeditor and cofounder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Griffin Poetry Prize, a PEN USA award for translation, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.

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    Contents

    Foreword

    I. (from The Book of Fear, 2021)

    My House
    A Road for Loss
    What If
    Ordinary Grief
    From, To
    Fear
    Like a Domestic Animal
    We
    I Don't Ask Anymore
    Massacres
    Similarities
    Plans
    Your Laughter
    Return
    Some Microbes
    Ads
    Art
    Revision
    You Can't

    II. (from House Dresses and Wars, 2016)

    Lovers Swap Language
    Search
    The Kids Are Screaming Now
    Out from under a House Dress
    Mothers Arrange Their Aches at Night
    Revolution
    We Were Young, You Gave Us a Home
    Oh My We've Grown
    Penniless
    I Suffer a Phobia Called Hope
    I Burn Time
    We Could Die in a Traffic Accident
    Sex
    My Laugh
    Since They Told Me . . .
    Whistling
    Daily I Imagine Them
    I'm Not Saying You Lie
    I Don't Believe in Greats
    Wedding Anniversary
    Wishes
    Trash
    Energy

    III. (from That Smile, That Heart, 2012)

    Mahmoud
    Children
    Elegy for the Desire of Mothers
    Almost Dead, Almost Alive
    Psychology News
    Daydream
    That Smile, That Heart
    Empty Repetitive State
    I Didn't Love and Wasn't Loved
    I
    In Love

    IV. (from What She Spoke of Him, 2006)

    A Contemporary Novel
    About Him
    The Upcoming Dervish Dance
    What She Left in You
    The Looming Wide Path