archipelago
Book*hug (Verlag)
978-1-77166-817-0 (ISBN)
Malik's lyrical poems intertwine histories of exile and ecological devastation. Beginning with a coming of age in the 80s and 90s between Canada, the Arabian Gulf, East Africa and Kashmir, they subvert conventions of lineage, instead drawing on the truths of inter-ethnic histories amidst sparse landscapes of deserts, oceans, and mountains. They question why the only certainties of "home" are urgency and impossibility.
At its core, archipelago is a letter to the daughters who come before and after, a quiet disclosure of barbed ancestral legacies that only come into focus through poetry.
LAILA MALIK is a desisporic settler and writer living in Adobigok, traditional land of Indigenous communities that include the Anishinaabe, Seneca, Mohawk Haudenosaunee, and Wendat. Her work has been widely published in literary magazines and journals, including Contemporary Verse 2, Canthius, The New Quarterly, Ricepaper, Qwerty, Room, Sukoon, The Bangalore Review, and Archetype. Malik's essays have been longlisted for four different creative nonfiction contests and she was a fellow at the Banff Centre for Creative Arts in 2021. Her debut collection archipelago was included in CBC’s Spring 2023 Poetry Collections to Watch For.
prologue: all your grandmothers have stopped cooking1 pre-cambrianacacia honeythe organic properties of sandjust kids going homecutlerycharred graingrain II2 petroleum byproductsthe first gulf warwe ignored the 5000 year old temple ruins kafala vanishing axesmajnun3 half-life of exileriteswrong bonesfajr is the loneliest numberzero bridgehidden lines letter to my stardust sisterhow to season a turkey4: kufic the widow’s inventory still the heartbaby sharkurducrooked elbowsepilogue: irreconciliationnotesacknowledgements
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.04.2023 |
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Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 146 x 222 mm |
Gewicht | 113 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
ISBN-10 | 1-77166-817-2 / 1771668172 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-77166-817-0 / 9781771668170 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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