
Islanders
Ammiel Alcalay(Author)
City Lights Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 15. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-87286-506-8 (ISBN)
Description
Enigmatic and multi-layered, Islanders is about finding one's own hard-won truth. A young man's indelible memories of the struggle to find intimacy-formative experiences like the ebb and flow of friendships, love, and ordinary workaday life-are viewed through a lens of nostalgic longing and hard-eyed realism as he attempts to come to terms with the past. Set during the cataclysm of the last years of the war in Vietnam, in a landscape that shifts between the bleak fishing towns of the Atlantic coast to the ruined cities of the Northeast, Islanders explores the classic theme of identity's intricate relationship to place.
Reviews / Votes
"Ammiel Alcalay has done an admirable job of translating the poems of this unpretentious Bosnian poet... a volume of poetry worthy of [Mehmedinovic's] valuable and wise viewpoint."--American Book ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Monroe, OR
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87286-506-8 (9780872865068)
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Person
Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, translator, critic, and scholar who teaches at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is the Deputy Chair of the PhD Program in English. His latest work is Scrapmetal (Factory School, 2006). He is also editor and translator of Keys to the Garden, and Semezdin Mehmedinovic's Sarajevo Blues, both published by City Lights.