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You Can Be the Last Leaf
Selected Poems
Taschenbuch von Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Sprache: Englisch

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"Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat"--
"Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat"--
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 120
ISBN-13: 9781571315403
ISBN-10: 1571315403
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Abu Al-Hayyat, Maya
Übersetzung: Joudah, Fady
Hersteller: Milkweed Editions
Maße: 212 x 137 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.05.2022
Gewicht: 0,16 kg
preigu-id: 120312278
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 120
ISBN-13: 9781571315403
ISBN-10: 1571315403
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Abu Al-Hayyat, Maya
Übersetzung: Joudah, Fady
Hersteller: Milkweed Editions
Maße: 212 x 137 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.05.2022
Gewicht: 0,16 kg
preigu-id: 120312278
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