Not Guilty - Noor, Amatan
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Not Guilty is Amatan Noor's unapologetic poetic endeavor for deliverance. Narratives of legacy, love, solitude, grief and displacement pulsate between origin stories and conjurings that revolt against despair. Trekking through cosmic intergenerational trauma and volatilities of land, Noor declares a reclamation of the body and the self. Poems spring from post-partition East Bengal, to a New Jersey Criminal Courthouse, to cascading cities across Europe and the Middle East where Noor collects soulful mementos and lessons on perseverance. This debut collection embraces one's inner turmoil while…mehr

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Not Guilty is Amatan Noor's unapologetic poetic endeavor for deliverance. Narratives of legacy, love, solitude, grief and displacement pulsate between origin stories and conjurings that revolt against despair. Trekking through cosmic intergenerational trauma and volatilities of land, Noor declares a reclamation of the body and the self. Poems spring from post-partition East Bengal, to a New Jersey Criminal Courthouse, to cascading cities across Europe and the Middle East where Noor collects soulful mementos and lessons on perseverance. This debut collection embraces one's inner turmoil while birthing stanzas as balms of convalescence A striking tale of survivorship, migration, heartbreaks and joy with grit at its core. Not Guilty is a tenacious continuation of the self, past tragedies of catastrophic scope in unfamiliar terrains.
Autorenporträt
Amatan is a Bangladeshi writer Based in Brooklyn, NY. She migrated to the United States in 2005 and spent her adolescence in New Jersey. Her poetry appears in DIALOGIST, Thimble, No, Dear and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. Amatan attended Rutgers University where she earned a dual Bachelor's degree in Information Technology and Sociology. She began her writing career partaking in poetry slams. Amatan has won poetry slams at the Brooklyn Poetry Slam and Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Over the course of her writing career, her work has evolved to explore themes of dislocation, physical and generational trauma, diaspora, Islam and the multitudes pertaining to womanhood. Amatan lives in Clinton Hill and is in an ongoing love affair with Fort Greene Park. Not Guilty is her debut collection.