The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan

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The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala AlyanFrom Hala Alyan, the author of The Arsonists City and The Twenty Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and familypast, present, futurein the face of displacement and war. A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collectiona multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between

cutting away what no longer serves us to arrive at our true selves

colloquial

and innovative collection of poems written before her death in 2002

The poems both invite and challenge the reader

but there is also a wild humor and imagination that comes from being underestimated

standing in a Goodwill

they contradict themselves and combat each other in the way that one's own mind operates in seeking a singular voice of reason to follow

Ross Gay wants to understand joy

She is Black and queer and fat and angry and chill and witty and joyful and depressed and lovely and flawed and an (im)perfect dagger to the heart of white supremacist capitalism

the roof of a barn

gifts as debts

a widowed café owner

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