Your Native Land, Your Life East of the Sun Noted Syrian intellectual Nasser Rabbat

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Your Native Land, Your Life East of the Sun Noted Syrian intellectual Nasser RabbatThe book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self exploratory Sources and Contradictions Tracking Poems, an ongoing index of an American woman's life. The poet writes, In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different claim from those staked by the patriots of the sword; to speak of the land itself, the cities, and of the imaginations that have dwelt here, at risk, unfree, assaulted, erased.