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Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)

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Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)

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 theÂ consequences of these relationsâ€”in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and modern-day Islamic terrorismâ€”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 asÂ 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 employingÂ surrealist and eerily domestic imagery.
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Country USA
Brand University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer University of Nebraska Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781496215703
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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