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Informationen zum Autor Aria Aber is a Ron Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Narrative, and other publications. Klappentext Aria Aber is a Ron Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Narrative, and other publications. ¿ Zusammenfassung This collection of poems 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Source Acknowledgments Reading Rilke in Berlin I. First Snow Asylum Dream with Horse Family Reunion Can You Describe Your Years in Prison? Azalea Azalea Funeral in Paris There Here How to Pronounce John Frusciante Correctly Blessed Are the Rich Ode to My Hair Unmotioning Smells Like Liberty What Your Life Was Like II. Mother of All Balms Nostalgia Is Not the Right Word Reading Rilke at Lake Mendota, Wisconsin Vagabond Sisterhood At the Hospital, My Language I Wake Up Curled Up in a C. D. Wright Poem The Ownership of Naming Things Stone Self-Portrait as Wounded Doe of Artemis My Father Drives Me to Düsseldorf Airport Foreign Policies III. Rilke and I ich / I Lass / Let dir / You Alles / All Geschehn / Happen Schönheit / Beauty Und / And Schrecken / Terror IV. Covert United States Involvement in Regime Change, I Operation Cyclone I. Chaos II. Blue Bottle Fly Condition III. Hera IV. Ex Nihilo V. Hades VI. Dionysus VII. Ares VIII. Cyclopes IX. Cronus X. Catalogue of Grief XI. Interrogation Chamber Covert United States Involvement in Regime Change, II Operation Timber Sycamore V. The First Toast Nostos Fata Morgana, 1987 Meskonsing Your Whole Life Must Become a Sign and Witness to This Impulse Operation Cyclone, Years Later The Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine Inventory of Lost Conditionals Acknowledgments Notes...
