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Kavanagh, Basma.
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Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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Kavanagh, Basma.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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Ruba iyat for the time of apricots / a poem by Basma Kavanagh.
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Kavanagh, Basma.
Frontenac House Poetry, 2018.
Call #:
819
.16
K218r
Subjects
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781927823811 (lib. bdg.)
Description:
59 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Text in English; includes some text in Arabic.
Summary:
"This book length poem comprises three major interwoven threads: "Ahli", an auto/biographical thread about my Lebanese heritage; "Astura", a grim tale linking climate change and the oppression of women, and "Ana", a reflection on identity, language, and writing. To tell a story of my mother, her sisters, and their mother; a story of traditions, gesture, ritual, transformation, and self, is to persist against the erasure of the nuanced and tenacious feminine histories that co-exist with our troubled present and its bland stereotypes. Like a seed, a family story houses its ancestors, and the diversity--genetic and experiential--that equips us to thrive in a multitude of possible futures. Written in quatrains, called "ruba iyat" in Arabic, from the word for "four", each stanza of this poem is self-contained, yet converses with adjacent stanzas to build a narrative. The repetition of phrases across stanzas, and the studding of the text with Arabic words, combine to create a layered, incantatory quality evoking the complexity of Arabic oral poetry."--From publisher.
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Canadian poetry.
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