
Disbound
Poems
Hajar Hussaini(Author)
University of Iowa Press
Will be published approx. on 21. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-1-60938-867-6 (ISBN)
Description
Hajar Hussaini's poems in Disbound scrutinize the social, political, and historical traces inherited from one's language. The traces she finds--the flow of international commodities implied in a plosive consonant, an image of the world's nations convening to reject the full stop--retrieve a personal history between countries (Afghanistan and the United States) and languages (Persian and English) that has been constantly disrupted and distorted by war, governments, and media. Hussaini sees the subjectivity emerging out of these traces as mirroring the governments to whom she has been subject, blurring the line between her identity and her legal identification. The poems of Disbound seek beauty and understanding in sadness and confusion, and find the chance for love in displacement, even as the space for reconciliation in politics and thought seems to get narrower.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-867-6 (9781609388676)
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11/2022
University Of Iowa Press
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Hajar Hussaini is an Afghan poet and literary translator. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Margins, and Pamenar Press. Hussaini lives in Iowa City, Iowa.