Facts on the Ground -- Miss Sahar Tells the Story. Kaan and Her Sisters Consider the Past -- Upon A Time -- Miss Sahar Tells the Story of Spring -- Fashioned By Your Magic -- Coordinates -- Makaan -- [Interior] Bayt al Hatab -- Lesson: Direct Objects -- What Happens Next -- The Kingdom of Forgetting. EĢtude -- Dear Miss Sahar, First Letter -- Dear Miss Sahar, Letter in Transit -- Miss Sahar Listens to Fairuz Sing "The Bees' Path" -- Dear Miss Sahar, Third Letter -- Miss Sahar Listens to Fairuz Sing "I'll Write Your Name Habibi" -- Dear Miss Sahar, Letter Between Translations -- Miss Sahar Recites The Throne Verse -- Miss Sahar Completes Her Application for Travel Documents -- Dear Miss Sahar, Letter After -- Sings Herself the Rubble -- Dear Miss Sahar, Letter Without Address -- Kaan and Her Sisters Return -- Miss Sahar Listens to Fairuz Sing "Take Me" -- Laissez-Passez. Lemon Blossoms -- [Interior] Bustaan -- Amsa Gives the Journalists a Tour of Yarmouk -- Kaan and Her Sisters Survive the Siege -- [Interior] Namleeya -- Lesson: Metaphor -- [Interior] Khazaaneh -- Rootwork -- Baata At the Ruins -- Lesson: Nymphaeum.
Summary:
"In Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's Kaan and Her Sisters, language comes alive to guide both speaker and reader through landscapes of loss, beauty, song, and a fierce dream of liberation. "The sisters sing / us our poems," the poet writes, "whisper of becoming." Tuffaha achieves the difficult balance of documenting real-world political brutality with lyric reveries. From the Arab Spring to the songs of Fairuz, the epic journey this collection takes us on is unforgettable."--Back cover.
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