Sand Opera
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Machine generated contents note: I. abu ghraib arias -- Blues of Lane McCotter -- (echo /ex/): "In the name of God ..." -- Searching the Koran (Standard Operating Procedure) -- (echo /ex/): "In the beginning ..." -- Blues of Javal Davis -- (echo /ex/): "next day ..." -- Public Address/Ghost Soldiers -- (echo /ex/): "his name is G ..." -- Blues of Charles Graner -- (echo /ex/): "On the third day ..." -- Handling the Koran (Standard Operating Procedure) -- (echo /ex/): "First the man ..." -- Document Exploitation (Standard Operating Procedure) -- (echo /ex/): "Now these are the generations ..." -- Blues of Lynddie England -- (echo /ex/): "me ..." -- Blues of Ken Davis -- (echo /ex/): "Now I am what I saw ..." -- MUSLIM BURIAL (Standard Operating Procedure) -- (echo /ex/): "And it came to pass ..." -- Blues of Joe Darby -- (echo /ex/) -- Woman Mourning Son -- Recipe from the Abbasid -- Home Sweet Home -- Iraqi Curator's PowerPoint -- Black Site (Exhibit Q) -- Asymmetries -- Salaam Epigrams -- War Stories -- III. hung lyres -- "The new theory: not to praise too much ..." -- "When the bombs fell, she could barely raise ..." -- "you mute you without openings ..." -- "Is the ear ..." -- "In the cell of else ..." -- "this is the air we script to lips ..." -- "I had no names to blazon their tender ..." -- "She asks, is that man crying ..." -- "What does it mean, I say" -- IV. second recitative -- Breathing Together -- Testimony (after Daniel Heyman) -- When I Was a Child, I Lived as a Child, I Said to My Dad -- Black Site (Exhibit I) -- Love Potion #42 -- Saddam's Fingerprints -- Etruscan Cista Handle -- Black Site (Exhibit M) -- Toast (for Nawal Nasrallah) -- Cell/(ph)one (A simultaneity in four voices) -- V. homefront/removes -- "I hear it, at times, even in the wind" -- "was taken was rapidly ..." -- "What consequence is a body" -- "tried hanging myself ..." -- "I was planning my lesson on imagery ..." -- "taken to outside court ..." -- "In the wake of" -- "I suspended upside ..." -- "You look at me / looking at you" -- "so I could pass the time ... " -- "As if, somehow, I were responsible" --
"Sand Opera emerges from the dizzying position of being named but unheard as an Arab American, and out of the parallel sense of seeing Arabs named and silenced since 9/11. Polyvocal poems, arias, and redacted text speak for the unheard. Metres exposes our common humanity, while investigating the dehumanizing perils of war and its lasting effect on our culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Farmington, Maine : Alice James Books, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 103 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781938584091
1938584090
SUBJECTS
Political poetry, American.