The Taste of the Earth (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
100
Utgivningsdatum
2019-07-01
Förlag
Press 53
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 6 mm
Vikt
159 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
402:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9781950413096

The Taste of the Earth

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The poems in The Taste of the Earth weave together personal history with the complex cultural heritage of Hedy Habra’s countries of origin. Steeped in memories, loss and longing, these poems invite the reader to revisit Egypt's mythical past and Lebanon’s turmoil, recalling the intersecting roots of culture and language in an act of artistic recollection that bridges time and space. Through the lyrical power of the senses, Habra’s poems bring to life scenes of strife and upheaval as well as profound joy. Such images linger in the mind and keep evolving in search for the permanence of beauty within suffering as they are evoked by trees, houses, fountains and familiar objects, each voice offering with its testimony a broader perspective on the interconnectedness of worlds and universality of emotions.
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The Taste of the Earth contains numerous histories—from Egypt's distant past to the Lebanese Civil War to the Arab Spring—though history is not “the straight line that accompanies silence.” These poems confess that image can hide the smell of blood and the smell of jasmine, both the terrible and the sweet in the story of a place. Habra also teaches us that it is not just language and maps that tell history, but that objects carry what they have witnessed, the truths they are waiting to speak. —Traci Brimhall, author of Saudade

in this lush collection, the force of the lyric brings imagination, witness, myth, and memory into an opulent confluence. with formal variation—from the japanese haibun, to the malay pantoum, to an abecedarian composed of phoenician letters, to an intersection of the senses and mathematics via the eye of horus—habra’s poems enact art as the process of “remembering and forgetting,/telling and retelling.” as the focus here, often, is war and its devastations, witnessed and remembered, The Taste of the Earth is rife with sorrow songs, but each is moored by the speaker as a beholder of earth’s beauty as it pours in through the senses and finds a home in language: “[T]he jacaranda’s blue light anchors me back,” Habra writes, “whispering, yes, it’s here, deep inside, fluttering like a dove’s wings.” —Diane Seuss, author of Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl

these are a painter’s poems, sensuous and filled with scenes under the surface. in her journey, hedy habra digs into the roots to find stories of wisdom. what’s special about these stories is that, even though they are painful, their exotic flavor is of earth, which belongs to everyone. they wander through memory and, image by image, settle in the soul “as sand in an hourglass.” —dunya mikhail, author of In Her Feminine Sign

you may be sitting in your favorite chair at home when you begin to read hedy habra’s latest collection of poems, The Taste of the Earth, but that’s not where you’ll be. You’ll be in Damascus, Heliopolis, Beirut, Aleppo. Before you know it, as if dreaming, you’ll be gliding along the streets of these cities, listening to their sounds, overhearing bits of conversation. Born in Egypt, Habra is part of the diaspora of Middle Easterners compelled to leave lands they love due to war and upheaval. There is longing for home in every sense of the word—for a place, a person, a taste, a story, a particular light, a language, a gesture, a laugh. It is this longing that makes these poems universal, regardless of where you are as you read them. —Susan Azar Porterfield, winner of the Cider Press Review Editor’s Prize for Dirt, Root, Silk.



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HEDY HABRA was born in Egypt and is of Lebanese origin. She has authored Under Brushstrokes, finalist for the 2015 USA Best Book Award and the International Book Award for Poetry, and Tea in Heliopolis, winner of the 2014 USA Best Book Award and finalist for the International Book Award for Poetry. Her story collection, Flying Carpets, won the 2013 Arab American National Book Award's Honorable Mention and was finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award and the USA Best Book Award. Her book of literary criticism, Mundos alternos y artsticos en Vargas Llosa (2012), explores the visual and interartistic elements in the Peruvian Nobel's fiction. Habra holds a B.S. in Pharmacy. She earned an M.A. and an M.F.A. in English and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish literature, all from Western Michigan University where she has been teaching. A recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, she won Honorable Mention from Tiferet and was finalist for Nimrod's Pablo Neruda Award. A fourteen-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the net, her multilingual work appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Bitter Oleander, Cimarron Review, Connotation Press, Cutthroat, Diode, Drunken Boat, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Gargoyle, Letras Femeninas, Mizna, New York Quarterly, Nimrod, Poet Lore, Pirene's Fountain, Solstice, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily and World Literature Today.

Innehållsförteckning



Topography

The Taste of the Earth

I Always Knew I Was a Sibyl at Heart

Hall of Mirrors

Defying the Blank Page

Writing in Dust    

What Every Blossom Hides

Once Upon a Time, an Olive Tree

The Dust of Legends

The House of Happiness

What’s in a Cup?

Eating Pizza in a Renovated Hammam in Granada

Visiting the Generalife

Tesserae

ii

Meditations Over Phoenician Letters

iii

Riding the Winged Tricycle 

Recurrent Dream 

No Man’s Land

Phoenicians Once Sailed from These Shores

To Amal

The Green Line

The Map of Memory

After Twenty-Five Years

Reading by Candlelight

Vanishing Point

Weaving and Unweaving

Deeper Than Tattoo

Jacaranda

The Burma Pearl

iv 

Meditations Over the Eye of Horus

v

I’d Like to Write a Song of Freedom, 2011

Erasing the Memory of Fear

Close-Up on Tahrir Square

Signs of Spring

The Colors of Dawn

Song Rising from the Depth of Sorrow

Stepping into Mirrors    

The Abandoned Stone House in Damascus

The Lucky Ones

The House in Aleppo That I Would Never Get to See

The Broken Jug

I Came to Be Known as the Damascene Rose

The Abandoned Fountain