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The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war.A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.These poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body—and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? When you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest? Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco (March 12, 2024)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0063317478


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 75


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.25 x 9 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #37,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #17 in Middle Eastern Poetry (Books) #17 in Family Poetry (Books) #73 in Love Poems


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    • Searing & Unexpected
This collection is searing & moving. It is experimental & yet revealing. Each poem invites us into depths & realms we may not expect. This is a collection I’ll return to and recommend often.
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2024 by Gayatri Sethi, PhD
    • a moving collection of poems
A collection of poems about family, identity, miscarriage, displacement, home, and hope. from The Interviewer Wants to Know About Fashion: "I watch a woman / bury her child. How? I lost a fetus / and couldn't eat breakfast for a week. / I watch a woman and the watching / is a crime." from The Year Is: "Laughter like a ring, Baba. / Like a handful of glitter. / Of course we found our way back to the house by dawn : : / we each knelt in front of him. We kissed the crown of his head. / Baba, we've been disappointing our fathers for centuries. I know you understand." from Half-Life in Exile: "There is nothing more terrible / than waiting for the terrible. I promise. / Was the grief worth the poem? No, / but you don't interrogate a week / for what it does with wreckage. / For what it's done to get here." ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2024 by Courtney LeBlanc
    • more great work from hala alyan!
stunning as always. hala alyan has never disappointed me. gripping, devastating. finished this collection in one sitting.
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024 by silas denver melvin
    • Beautiful collection of Palestinian Poetry
Thank you Ecco & NetGalley for the Advanced Reader's Copy! Available March 12th 2024. There's something familial about Hala Alyan's work that grips the soul and slowly turns it until you can't help but view the world in a different way. I love the poems in this collection, the way Alyan plays with form, expanding and questioning the very fabric of poetry itself. At the same time, her stories center around traditional themes - motherhood, immigration, and relationships. I devoured these poems, each unlike the other yet together a symphony, like a box of sticky baklava, licking remnants off my fingertips and a delicious echo in my ears. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2024 by Nuha
    • A great poetry collection
I am not normally a big poetry reader, but there were some poems in this collection that really stuck out to me! There were poems that were so incredibly heartbreaking. I appreciate the amount of emotion the author put into the work!
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2024 by Angela DeMaio

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