Levinson-LaBrosse Alana Marie

Dream State (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 CHANGES BOOK PRIZE

The poems of Dream State arise from the poet's experience living and working in Iraq, not as a soldier or journalist, but as a writer, translator, teacher, and preservationist. In a striking instance of co-generation, Levinson-LaBrosse's poetic voice emerges alongside the voices of others with whom she has collaboratedwhose reflections and stories she translates to converse with her own in an interdependent exchange.

As the 2003 Iraq invasion reaches its twentieth anniversary (2023) and the Islamic State's attempted genocide in Shingal reaches its tenth (2024), Dream State is an attempt to sit with other people's experiences, rather than extract details to exploit; to amplify the work around her, rather than supplant it; and to trust that listening to individual perspectives will lead to understanding.

As a book, Dream State resists categorization. And yet it is fundamentally accessible in its humanity. People come together in understanding, and break apart just as quickly. Fictions shatter and endure, while national imaginations always seem to be risk. And everywhere the poet turns, she learns that peace is never self-sustaining.

Before the most recent invasion of Iraq, scholars wondered, given Iraq's ethnic and religious composition, how any sort of democratic union could be fairly formed or peacefully sustained. Now, Americans are asking the same question about a democracy that has had two more centuries of practice than Iraq's.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Unnamed Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781961884274
• Artikelnr.: 70066451

Autorenporträt

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse is a poet, translator, and assistant professor at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). She earned her PhD in Kurdish Studies at the University of Exeter, specializing in nineteenth-century poetry, and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College as well as an MEd from the University of Virginia. Her writing has appeared in Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, In Other Words, Plume, Epiphany, Sewanee Review, The Iowa Review, and Words Without Borders. Her book-length works include Kajal Ahmed's Handful of Salt (2016), Abdulla Pashew's Dictionary of Midnight (2019), Nali's My Moon Is the Only Moon (2021) and Farhad Pirbal's The Potato Eaters (2024). She was a 2022 NEA Fellow, the first ever working from the Kurdish. She serves as the Founding Director of Kashkul and was the Founding Director of the Slemani UNESCO City of Literature.