Syrena in Space

Banah el Ghadbanah

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Dzanc Books
29 November 2022

Poetry by individual poets

Winner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore. My home is Syria and Syria for me is like the sea. I want nothing more than to jump in and swim around forever. In Syria I am declared wanted, like so many of us displaced lunar divas. The longing I feel is the deepest kind. It could crack the whole earth open. I am a Lumerian from Ancient Sumeria, a southern space creature in a northern world, LA SYRNENA, zhe is my destiny.

In this collection, each poem flows like water on the page. The author weaves in stories

mantras

revolutionary messages

the movement of arabic letters

the memory of Sumerian cuneiform. This book is a hybrid creature between poem-story-form that crosses genres like it crosses dimensions. In this work, you are the mermaid. You are the forever migrant, a traveler between the oceanic and the extraterrestrial, across continents and planets. You are a time traveler, and you speak many languages. You are LA SYRENA, conjuring your own space to feel free.

By: Banah el Ghadbanah
Imprint: Dzanc Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm,
ISBN: 9781950539444
ISBN 10: 195053944X
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 29 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Banah el Ghadbanah holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies and researches Syrian women’s creativity in the face of occupation and regime violence. They are published in Mizna, the Women’s Review of Books, Poetry Northwest, and Afghan Punk Magazine, among others. Banah loves bellydance, eating mangoes, and lazing by the sea.

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Syrena in Space

Banah el Ghadbanah

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