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Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems

Lubna Safi

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Your Blue and the Quiet Lament records the textures of grief after a cousin's murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative of arrest, imprisonment, and torture in Syria and interweave the difficulties a family experiences in the diaspora.

Shifting between the death of poet Federico García Lorca and that of her cousin, Lubna's poetry contends with personal loss by distancing the meaning of one death through the intermediary of another. Yet the distortion of distance is already there--in the language, in the geographic space, in time, in the grief itself--tinged with blue.

As she recalls childhood memories and imagines conversations with her dead cousin, Lubna's poetry whispers, calls out, sings, laments, pens letters, photographs, sketches, paints, and prays in an attempt to exhaust grief.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
  • Publish Date: Aug 2nd, 2022
  • Pages: 96
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.06in - 5.98in - 0.63in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9781682831397
  • Categories: • American - General• Middle Eastern• Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss

About the Author

Safi, Lubna: - Lubna Safi was born in Detroit and grew up in the Midwest. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with poetry, Lubna also writes fiction, literary criticism, and lyric essays. Your Blue and the Quiet Lament is her debut poetry collection.

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Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.

Today's Featured Poet: Lubna Safi’s debut poetry collection Your Blue and the Quiet Lament won the Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry in 2022 and is out from @TTUPress. Her poems and essays have been published in @GuernicaMag, The Journal, @Mizna_ArabArt, and elsewhere. https://t.co/dSM3LKL4uZ

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NBCC Emerging Critic Layla Benitez-James reviewed two new collections for the @PoetryFound’s Harriet Books: Lubna Safi’s debut, Your Blue and Quiet Lament, and André Naffis-Sahely’s High Desert. https://t.co/9ctjOdTPGN

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BAY City Books for August include @ingrid_rojas_c’ debut memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds (which got a rave in the NYT!), from @doubledaybooks, Your Blue, the Quiet Lament: Poems By Luba Safi, and more! https://t.co/wBrgfSqOoO

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