{"product_id":"the-moon-that-turns-you-back-poems-isbn-9780063317475","title":"The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Arsonists’ City \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e The Twenty-Ninth Year, \u003c\/em\u003ea new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body—and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? When you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest?\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Every line of Hala Alyan’s \u003cem\u003eThe Moon That Turns You Back\u003c\/em\u003e drips with intentional craft, with brilliance. Hala’s ability to marry poetic experimentation with the deep tenderness of living makes these poems urgent, necessary, and loving. I feel honored to be alive in a time where I can read Hala Alyan, where I can devour book after book, where I can bask in her gorgeous heart. This book is a gift, those of us who encounter it should consider ourselves lucky.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFatimah Asghar, author of If They Come For Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The formally inventive and devastatingly evocative latest from Alyan (\u003cem\u003eThe Twenty-Ninth Year\u003c\/em\u003e) reckons with grief, displacement, and enduring kinship. From Beirut to the U.S. to Jerusalem to Kuwait, Alyan draws from her experience as a Palestinian American to examine where one’s home is under occupation and forced displacement....These powerful poems linger long in the mind.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hala Alyan offers us a magnificent reckoning and witnessing. These poems are a dazzling achievement, singing of a body\/bodies tethered to tenderness and hope, even in the face of landscapes that don't always offer ‘...good and patient soil.’” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I will read anything Hala Alyan writes, knowing always that time spent in the company of her work makes me a better reader, a better writer, a more empathetic creature. Here is a writer who wields simultaneity to fascinating, beautiful effect: poems that are simultaneously stark and lush, blunt and experimental, crackling with tension, with tenderness. The poems in \u003cem\u003eThe Moon That Turns You Back \u003c\/em\u003eare some of my favorite work by one of my favorite poets. I hope to spend a long lifetime with this book.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSafia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A bountiful collection of poetry...spellbinding...Hala Alyan renders rich, intricate landscapes of heritage and place.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Hala] Alyan's fifth book of poetry grapples heroically with the fissures of family and lineage caused by displacement and migration.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book feels various in the way that living feels various -- it's really faithful to the convergence of different things in your brain in a way that I find very moving.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890597425381,"sku":"NP9780063317475","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063317475.jpg?v=1730233660","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-moon-that-turns-you-back-poems-isbn-9780063317475","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}