Hard Damage Paperback / softback
by Aria Aber
Part of the The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry series
Paperback / softback
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Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings.
In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations.
Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of these relations—in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and modern-day Islamic terrorism—for her family and the world at large. Invested in and suspicious of the pain of family and the shame of selfhood, the speakers of these richly evocative and musical poems mourn the magnitude of citizenship as a state of place and a state of mind.
While Hard Damage is framed by free-verse poetry, the middle sections comprise a lyric essay in fragments and a long documentary poem.
Aber explores Rilke in the original German, the urban melancholia of city life, inherited trauma, and displacement on both linguistic and environmental levels, while employing surrealist and eerily domestic imagery.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:126 pages
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2019
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- ISBN:9781496215703
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:126 pages
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781496215703