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Tahrir Suite: Poems (Triquarterly)
Matthew Shenoda
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Description for Tahrir Suite: Poems (Triquarterly)
Paperback. "Tahrir Suite" is a meditation of mainly tristichs that create an Epic poem rich with symbolic imagery. The ancient namesake, Isis, comes to the contemporary forefront of Egypt s calamity, bringing the necessary hope, and often overlooked female voice to the center of this very relevant and sublime work of poetry." Series: Triquarterly. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Tahrir Suite is a book-length poem that contemplates immigration, homeland, and diaspora in the twenty-first century. The poem, inspired by recent events in Egypt, cycles through the journey of two Egyptians moving across borders, languages, cultures, landscapes, and political systems while their life in the U.S. diaspora evolves and their home country undergoes revolutionary change.
Written from a perspective and about a place that is virtually unexplored in contemporary American poetry, Tahrir Suite works to capture the complicated essence of what it means to be from a specific place that is experiencing such radical change and how our understandings ... Read more
Tahrir Suite is a book-length poem that contemplates immigration, homeland, and diaspora in the twenty-first century. The poem, inspired by recent events in Egypt, cycles through the journey of two Egyptians moving across borders, languages, cultures, landscapes, and political systems while their life in the U.S. diaspora evolves and their home country undergoes revolutionary change.
Written from a perspective and about a place that is virtually unexplored in contemporary American poetry, Tahrir Suite works to capture the complicated essence of what it means to be from a specific place that is experiencing such radical change and how our understandings ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Triquarterly
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810130241
SKU
V9780810130241
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About Matthew Shenoda
Matthew Shenoda is the author of the poetry collections Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (2009) and Somewhere Else (2005), which won the American Book Award. He is currently Associate Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Columbia College, Chicago, USA.
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