La Syrena: Visions of a Syrian Mermaid from Space
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Winner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to...
Winner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize
LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore. My home is Syria and Syria for me is like the sea. I want nothing more than to jump in and swim around forever. In Syria I am declared wanted, like so many of us displaced lunar divas. The longing I feel is the deepest kind. It could crack the whole earth open. I am a Lumerian from Ancient Sumeria, a southern space creature in a northern world, LA SYRNENA, zhe is my destiny. In this collection, each poem flows like water on the page. The author weaves in stories و mantras و revolutionary messages و the movement of arabic letters و the memory of Sumerian cuneiform. This book is a hybrid creature between poem-story-form that crosses genres like it crosses dimensions. In this work, you are the mermaid. You are the forever migrant, a traveler between the oceanic and the extraterrestrial, across continents and planets. You are a time traveler, and you speak many languages. You are LA SYRENA, conjuring your own space to feel free.
Author: Banah El Ghadbanah
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 08/23/2022
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781950539444
About the Author
El-Ghadbanah, Banah: - Banah is an extraterrestial from Syria raised in the u.s. south. Zhe is a soothsayer, a sheikha-in-training, a mermaid from space. Banah is wanted by the Syrian regime for 50 million lira for telling their family's story of exile and resistance. Zhe has a PhD in Ethnic Studies and writes about Syrian women's poetics in revolution, siege, and diaspora.
LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore. My home is Syria and Syria for me is like the sea. I want nothing more than to jump in and swim around forever. In Syria I am declared wanted, like so many of us displaced lunar divas. The longing I feel is the deepest kind. It could crack the whole earth open. I am a Lumerian from Ancient Sumeria, a southern space creature in a northern world, LA SYRNENA, zhe is my destiny. In this collection, each poem flows like water on the page. The author weaves in stories و mantras و revolutionary messages و the movement of arabic letters و the memory of Sumerian cuneiform. This book is a hybrid creature between poem-story-form that crosses genres like it crosses dimensions. In this work, you are the mermaid. You are the forever migrant, a traveler between the oceanic and the extraterrestrial, across continents and planets. You are a time traveler, and you speak many languages. You are LA SYRENA, conjuring your own space to feel free.
Author: Banah El Ghadbanah
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 08/23/2022
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781950539444
About the Author
El-Ghadbanah, Banah: - Banah is an extraterrestial from Syria raised in the u.s. south. Zhe is a soothsayer, a sheikha-in-training, a mermaid from space. Banah is wanted by the Syrian regime for 50 million lira for telling their family's story of exile and resistance. Zhe has a PhD in Ethnic Studies and writes about Syrian women's poetics in revolution, siege, and diaspora.