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Syrena in Space
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This compelling collection will resonate with readers intrigued by poetry that crosses genres and dimensions, those interested in Middle Eastern culture and diaspora experiences, as well as fans of innovative, hybrid literary forms that combine myth, language, and personal narrative.
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Winner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize
LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore.
My home is Syria and Syria for me is like the sea. I want nothing more than to jump in and swim around forever. In Syria I am declared wanted, like so many of us displaced lunar divas. The longing I feel is the deepest kind. It could crack the whole earth open. I am a Lumerian from Ancient Sumeria, a southern space creature in a northern world, LA SYRNENA, zhe is my destiny.
In this collection, each poem flows like water on the page. The author weaves in stories, mantras, revolutionary messages, the movement of Arabic letters, the memory of Sumerian cuneiform. This book is a hybrid creature between poem-story-form that crosses genres like it crosses dimensions.
In this work, you are the mermaid. You are the forever migrant, a traveller between the oceanic and the extraterrestrial, across continents and planets. You are a time traveller, and you speak many languages. You are LA SYRENA, conjuring your own space to feel free.
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ISBN: 9781950539444
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 October 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Dzanc Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 250g
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About the Author
Banah el Ghadbanah holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies and researches Syrian women’s creativity in the face of occupation and regime violence. They are published in Mizna, the Women’s Review of Books, Poetry Northwest, and Afghan Punk Magazine, among others. Banah loves bellydance, eating mangoes, and lazing by the sea.
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