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The Twenty-Ninth Year
The Twenty-Ninth Year | Hala Alyan
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"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." LitHub For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the pastmemories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faithwinds itself around the present. Halas ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone; from alcoholism to recovery; from a single woman to a wife. This collection summons breathtaking chaos, one that seeps into the bones of these odes, the shape of these elegies. A vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love and joy, The Twenty-Ninth Year is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities.
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The Twenty-Ninth Year | Hala Alyan
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This is a very strong poetry collection. However, don‘t read it if you‘re triggered by rape, violence, drugs or eating disorders. It is extremely intense, but very well written. I liked it, but I will never reread it. #poetry

TrishB Stacked for now 👍🏻 5y
slategreyskies @TrishB if you can handle intense subject matter, this book really is very good. It triggered me quite badly, but I‘ll admit that, had the writing been less fierce and strong, I wouldn‘t have had such an intense reaction. She is a really good poet. 5y
TrishB I like it when I feel strong enough - if I‘m having a bad day I wouldn‘t read. But I read a lot of poetry so like looking for new stuff. I stacked because it‘s expensive on amazon and I wanted to remind myself to have a look around first! 5y
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The Twenty-Ninth Year | Hala Alyan
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A powerful collection of poetry by a Palestinian-American poet as she reflects on a year in her life. The poems highlight the theme of displacement, not just of being of Palestinian descent, but being a woman, being a lover and a wife, being American. Highly recommended.

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The Twenty-Ninth Year | Hala Alyan
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I was impressed with the poetic nature of Alyan‘s novel Salt Houses so I was really interested in her new poetry collection. The poems here twist around themselves, unable to find an anchor in the body, in addiction, in middle America, or in the Middle East. It reminded me of Porochista Khakpour‘s excellent memoir Sick with that feeling of displacement. I didn‘t quite feel that all the poems went together as a collection, though they are all good.

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