Moon That Turns You Back

<p><strong>From the author of <em>The Arsonists' City </em>and<em> The Twenty-Ninth Year </em>a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory archive and family-past present future-in the face of displacement and war.</strong></p> <p>A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices bodies and houses hold archival material for one another tracing paths between Brooklyn Beirut and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and vice versa the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.</p><p>These poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body--and conversely the kind of resilience tenacity and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? When you have lived a life in flux how do you find rest?</p>