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Bint
Ghinwa Jawhari's debut collection is a meditation on the Arabic word bint (بنت), or girl. The girl in these pages attempts to reconcile an American identity as a mite of the wooden house. At the onset of her acned year, she is polluted with breasts, suddenly aware of her body and its reaction to other bodies.
In BINT, the palate succumbs to pleasure-crested pricks just as the din of tradition continues to conjure a valley of mirrors. The thrill of the unknown contrasts with what is taught, contextless and insistent. Through it all, the future is discernible, and glistens on in the smoke, like Beirut's blue neon of a prayer bead.
Book Details
- Publisher: Radix Media
- Publish Date: Mar 19th, 2021
- Pages: 40
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 4.80in - 0.20in - 0.01lb
- EAN: 9781734048735
- Categories: • Middle Eastern• Women Authors• Women's Studies
About the Author
Jawhari, Ghinwa: - Ghinwa Jawhari is a Lebanese American writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her essays, fiction, and poetry appear or are forthcoming in Catapult, Narrative, Mizna, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is a 2021 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop. BINT is her debut collection.
Praise for this book
Dedicated to 'the girls, ' BINT revolves around the intricate and violent wounds of girlhood. In concise and muscular poems, the author's vision shines clear as a prism: she sings of lost places, of the body's frail and wondrous secrets. I was immediately taken with this marvelous voice.
--Aria Aber, Hard Damage
--Aria Aber, Hard Damage
Ghinwa Jawhari's BINT stands at the crossroads of history and humanity. Each poem is a haunting. From ruminations about lost homelands, to the challenges of Arab womanhood, each poem acts as a meditation on the power and limits of language. The silence between each word is often as devastating as Jawhari's words themselves.
--Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
--Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
Ghinwa Jawhari's BINT is an absolute wonder. In these striking, elegant poems--which she dedicates to 'the girls'--Jawhari has created an astonishing meditation on gender, violence, dislocation, and love. An exquisite chapbook!
--Hala Alyan, The Twenty-Ninth Year
--Hala Alyan, The Twenty-Ninth Year
In BINT, Ghinwa Jawhari renders a lush, evocative world distilled. Her poems--some as brief as a few lines--juxtapose the everyday beauty and violences of girlhood and coming of age. This is a poet whose eye is sharp and ever watchful, refusing to turn away. Through its gaze, we see the sun as 'a cored nectarine, ' platoons sucking from 'ruined cigarettes along the cleft lip of the corniche, ' earth 'red as afterbirth.' Girlhood: a trial 'we pass through & barely remember.' I am grateful there are writers like Jawhari making sure we don't forget.
--Leila Chatti, Tunsiya/Amrikiya
--Leila Chatti, Tunsiya/Amrikiya