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Bread Alone (Arab American Writing)
Kim Jensen
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Description for Bread Alone (Arab American Writing)
Hardcover. Deals with the struggle of those who seek love in a world saturated with brutality and aggression. This title features poems that condemn the violence in Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon, while exploring the intimate consequences of these and other injustices. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
In this provocative collection, Kim Jensen gives voice to the struggle of those who seek love in a world saturated with brutality and aggression. The concise lyrics in ""Bread Alone"" condemn the violence in Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon, while exploring the intimate consequences of these and other injustices. Darkly humorous, grotesque, sorrowful, outraged, and sometimes poignantly hopeful, Jensen's poems possess a strange beauty and remind us of the key purposes of poetry - to warn and to revive our sense of conscience and connection.
In this provocative collection, Kim Jensen gives voice to the struggle of those who seek love in a world saturated with brutality and aggression. The concise lyrics in ""Bread Alone"" condemn the violence in Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon, while exploring the intimate consequences of these and other injustices. Darkly humorous, grotesque, sorrowful, outraged, and sometimes poignantly hopeful, Jensen's poems possess a strange beauty and remind us of the key purposes of poetry - to warn and to revive our sense of conscience and connection.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815609452
SKU
V9780815609452
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About Kim Jensen
Kim Jensen is the author of the novel The Woman I Left Behind. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, The Baltimore Review, Al Jadid, Rain Taxi Review, Come Together: Imagine Peace, Left Curve, and The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. She is associate professor of English at the Community College ... Read more
Reviews for Bread Alone (Arab American Writing)
This powerful work reproduces the shock of the life that millions of people lead in silence, in darkness. These poems can wake up a rock. - Etel Adnan, author of Sitt Marie Rose