{"product_id":"the-twenty-ninth-year-paperback","title":"The Twenty-Ninth Year - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHala Alyan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic.\" -LitHub\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past--memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith--winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone; from alcoholism to recovery; from a single woman to a wife. This collection summons breathtaking chaos, one that seeps into the bones of these odes, the shape of these elegies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love and joy, \u003cem\u003eThe Twenty-Ninth Year\u003c\/em\u003e is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHALA ALYAN is an award-winning Palestinian American poet and clinical psychologist. She has published four collections of poetry and a novel, \u003ci\u003eSalt Houses, \u003c\/i\u003epraised by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a master of . . . the depths and complexities of the Palestinian displacement.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760959914272,"sku":"9781328511942","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8f00063ecac5fe821686a56c573048d2.webp?v=1780195303","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-twenty-ninth-year-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}