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My voice sought the wind / Susan Abulhawa.
- Title
- My voice sought the wind / Susan Abulhawa.
- Author
- Abulhawa, Susan.
- Publication
- Charlottesville, Virginia : Just World Books, [2013]
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- Description
- 125 pages : portrait; 21 cm
- Summary
- "I wrote poetry before I wrote anything else," says Susan Abulhawa, esteemed Palestinian-American author and social activist, in the introduction to her first book of poems, My Voice Sought the Wind. This new work follows her highly acclaimed novel, Mornings in Jenin, which has been translated into 32 languages since it was published in 2010. My Voice Sought the Wind presents five years of Abulhawa's best poems on the timeless themes of love, loss, identity, and family, brought to life through her vivid observations and intimate personal reflections. She speaks from her own experience, with a style that is romantic, but tinged with disillusionment, often a bit sad and always introspective. The five sections of the book echo her personal journey, from the pain of separation from her homeland and her bitter, yet nostalgic memories of the past, through various phases of love and regret, through the experience of mortality, and finally to her reconciliation with the future and hope of new birth. My Voice Sought the Wind resonates with the works of Pablo Neruda and other icons of the world poetic canon, while heralding a powerful new voice that is distinctively lyrical, distinctively feminist, and distinctively Palestinian. The grapevine cover and interior motifs by the talented U.K.-based graphic designer Muiz complement the poetry by evoking the struggle, pain, promise, and hope experienced throughout the process of cultivating grapes-- or poems.
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Palestinian, black and blue -- Love and Neruda -- History of love -- Family -- Way things are.
- ISBN
- 9781935982326
- 193598232X
- LCCN
- ^^2013948072
- OCLC
- 861521965
- SCSB-11220558
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library