Thursday, February 14, 2019

A Raw Book of Poems

The Twenty-Ninth YearThe Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan


This powerful book of poems reads almost as a memoir, dealing with growing up, straddling different cultures, and trying to come to terms with society as a whole. Alyan succeeds in weaving jarring snapshots of trauma with haunting, and often hopeful, poetry.

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