Threa Almontaser

The Wild Fox of Yemen (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry

Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Harryette Mullen

By turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective, always guided by faith and ancestry, Threa Almontaser's incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival. A love letter to the country and people of Yemen, a portrait of young Muslim womanhood in New York after 9/11, and an extraordinarily composed examination of what it means to carry in the body the echoes of what came before, Almontaser's polyvocal collection sneaks artifacts to and from worlds, repurposing language and adapting to the space between cultures. Half-crunk and hungry, speakers move with the force of what cannot be contained by the limits of the American imagination, and instead invest in troublemaking and trickery, navigate imperial violence across multiple accents and anthems, and apply gang signs in henna, utilizing any means necessary to form a semblance of home. In doing so, The Wild Fox of Yemen fearlessly rides the tension between carnality and tenderness in the unruly human spirit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Graywolf Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644451465
• Artikelnr.: 61419971

Autorenporträt

Threa Almontaser is an author and multimedia artist from New York. She earned her MFA and TESOL certification from North Carolina State University and is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright program, and elsewhere. When not storytelling, she attends comic conventions, teaches ESL to immigrants and refugees, and keeps an eye out for pretty rocks. For more, please visit threawrites.com.