My Name on His Tongue: Poetry (Arab American Writing)
by:
Laila Halaby (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780815632948 (0815632940)
ASIN: 0815632940
Publish date: 2012-05-15
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Pages no: 131
Edition language: English
Laila Halaby was born in Lebanon to a Jordanian father and American mother, she grew up mostly in Arizona. She is the author of two novels, West of Jordan (2003; winner of a Pen Beyond Margins Award) and Once in a Promised Land (2007). She holds an undergraduate degree in Italian and Arabic from Was...
There are many things that make me cry. Cruelty to animals, elderly and children, Shah Rukh Khan (argh), war, good ice cream going to waste and others. Poetry, usually, is not one of them. While reading my name on his tongue, I was in parts awestruck, in parts jealous and in lots of parts weepy. Con...
13 years ago
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