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Author:   janan alexandra ,  Ross Gay
Publisher:   BOA Editions, Limited
Imprint:   BOA Editions, Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.80cm
ISBN:  

9781960145475

ISBN 10:   1960145479
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   12 June 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Invocation Heritage Language Origin Story Transit Homecoming, ft. Free Dates When I Wake Strays On Form & Matter How the Dream Ends II. Notes on Touch Now that You’re Gone Requiem for the Blue-Headed Morning Ode to Crying at the Supermarket Litany of the Right Hand On the Last Day Just Had to Tell Somebody Ars Poetica Affirmation III. Standing at the Window Dream, or Poem to the Tongue Return (the Wish) Return (the Retelling) Inert for Days the Living Shadows On Sisterhood Come From Return (the Etymologies) Learning to Write in Arabic IV. parable of the aleph parable of the three sisters parable of the three cousins parable of broken bones parable of the field parable of thanks parable of sound & grammar parable of sharing parable of the eye in the throat parable as ars poetica parable of water & mothers parable of the monostich V. Arab American Syntax Notes Acknowledgements About the Author Colophon

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“come from arrives, it seems to me, in the footsteps of the cats, of the great Etel Adnan, of the worn & sun-hot stone. Wisdom. Vision. What a dream to find this sound, to reach & reach again for janan alexandra’s brilliant, steadfast attention – each phrase an altar of life, a route to past-language. Question, exclamation, sorrow, memory. I am more alive to read this poet’s every light & dark.” –aracelis girmay, author of the black maria   “Quietly gorgeous, these poems awaken me. The alive of the language: ‘the wind sweeps my head, suddens my wonder’ (“Ars Poetica,” a perfect gem of an unrhymed sonnet). This is a book of tenderness and generosity. You may not know it, but you need ‘Affirmation.’ And right now we all need “Why We Must Speak” and “Arab American Syntax”—and to consider “When there’s no ceiling left, how do we assemble the sentence?” –Ellen Doré Watson, author of pray me stay eager   “Here, janan alexandra makes audible something ancient about poetry, that it courses through our anatomies, through the larynx and out the mouth: ‘girl makes / her tongue a slab of meat / between rows of teeth. / th!, th!, th! : / sound of feet / slicing through snow.’ Listen to the smallest gestures of the hand on paper: in the orthography of an aleph is an animate world wound with centuries of violence and wonderment.” –Carolina Ebeid, author of Dauerwunder, a brief record of facts

Author Information

janan alexandra is the daughter of aLebanese mother and a Beirut-born American father. Her roots stretch across Cyprus, Pakistan, Lebanon, and manycorners of the U.S. A Fulbright Scholar, she has taught creative writing courses in Los Angeles, ME,Washington, D.C., and Southern IN.alexandra lives Bloomington, IN.

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