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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2019-09-01
- Pages
- 126
- ISBN
- 9781496215703
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
1496215702
ISBN-13
9781496215703
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038375392
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hard Damage
Number of Pages
126 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Places, American / General
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-009211
Reviews
"Aber is not afraid of erudition or the hard labor of crafting poems that peel open in layers; at times, reading her work reminded me of poets who have worked across similarly broad linguistic topographies: Carolyn Forché, Frank Bidart, Paul Celan, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, and others. But Aber's work here is hardly derivative of those masters. She is her own poet, her own voice, and her debut is my favorite volume of poetry this year."--Christian Kiefer, Paris Review, " Hard Damage , in both its masterful depictions of complicity and its unwavering focus on what is true, asks us to consider what we owe each other as people occupying this same, dying, earth."--Taneum Bambrick, Kenyon Review, "Aria Aber's stunning debut is both deeply personal and deeply historical. Examining the effects of western colonialism on Afghanistan and the consequences of decisions dating back to the 1950s, Hard Damage questions and mourns the idea of citizenship. This collection focuses on stories of displacement, which Aber accomplishes by breaking boundaries, breaking forms, and even breaking language."--Anthony Frame, Chicago Review of Books, "At turns scathing and tender, ironic and keening, Aber writes richly of warfare and Rilke, German and English alike. There is too much barbed beauty for my few sentences to contain, though Aber's do--elegantly, dangerously. A tremendous debut we are lucky to behold."--Solmaz Sharif, author of Look, "This is the book I've been trying to press into everyone's hands for two years. It's a breathtaking poetry collection. The poems--about war, God, love, Afghan history, migration, and Rilke--will leave you goose-bumped and weeping."--theweek.com, "At turns scathing and tender, ironic and keening, Aber writes richly of warfare and Rilke, German, and English alike. There is too much barbed beauty for my few sentences to contain, though Aber's do--elegantly, dangerously. A tremendous debut we are lucky to behold."--Solmaz Sharif, author of Look, "Aria Aber presses language until it yields up its secret meanings in this wide-ranging, cosmopolitan, remarkably Rilkean first book of poems. Hard Damage is haunted by questions of inheritance, of home and homelessness, of historical crisis, and it is suffused throughout with a dual feeling of Beauty and Terror. What a marvelous debut!"--Edward Hirsch, author of A Poet's Glossary and How to Read a Poem, "[ Hard Damage ] does not consent to the simple narrative or the soundbite. It reminds readers that every displaced person, whether refugee, immigrant, or the child of one, carries with them a parcel of stories, stories that are often suppressed and mutated by the dominant culture, or lost to reductive media coverage. . . . Hard Damage allows the songs--and the lives that they contain--to unfurl."--Marie Scarles, Rumpus, "Revel in the rise of this searing, essential new voice. Aria Aber's Hard Damage is an expansive debut that contends with the hard truth of how elusive belonging, and reckoning, is. . . . Every word, every phrase [of Hard Damage ] is crafted to incise, with its electric currents of images that make up the lives of refugee mothers, fathers, and daughters, and the inherent homesickness of language, wars. This debut seduces, critiques, mourns, ruptures, replenishes--and not without humor and wit. By the end I found myself completely thrilled that poetry can have this many possibilities."--Sally Wen Mao, author of Oculus, "With disarming ease, Aria Aber's Hard Damage leaps from the personal to the political, from song to theory, from Rilke to 'Afghan blow,' from a German childhood back to an earlier Afghani family history, ending up in a richly vexed American life. These juxtapositions are electrifying, eloquent. . . . 'What is it that we owe to each other?' Aber asks, calling us into 'history's collateral light.'"--Catherine Barnett, author of Human Hours, "Aria Aber's first book of poetry, Hard Damage , does not consent to the simple narrative or the soundbite. It reminds readers that every displaced person, whether refugee, immigrant, or the child of one, carries with them a parcel of stories, stories that are often suppressed and mutated by the dominant culture, or lost to reductive media coverage. . . . Hard Damage allows the songs--and the lives that they contain--to unfurl."--Marie Scarles, Rumpus, "Language is not static in Aber's work--it's malleable. It can be used to tell a story behind/within a story. . . . There is so much to be fascinated by in this book. So much to reward the reader."--daniellejhanson.com, "Recently, there has been some debate about "Best of" literary lists, whether they are too narrow in their scope or simply biased toward works that have been bestowed with awards, failing to consider the abundance of books that deserves a wider audience. Regardless of where you land in this debate, it's hard to imagine, as 2019 nears its end, that Hard Damage won't be on every one of those lists. It's an incredible achievement that doesn't sugarcoat the subjects it tackles, and if there is a book that so thoroughly explores the human condition this year, it is undoubtedly Aber's, one that will move you as much as it will stir serious discussion with others and, most importantly, with yourself."--Esteban Rodriguez, Pank, " Hard Damage is an immensely satisfying book. It charts immigrant experience in a way which is highly imaginative but also sustained and controlled. It will be fascinating to read what Aber writes next."--Ian Pople, Manchester Review, "Aria Aber's Hard Damage confronts the reader with both a masterful directness and lyrical clarity. Though the poet pays homage to tradition, these poems also realize a voice and experience--truth and sonority, spirit and grit--that are individual. Each turn in this narrative of dislocation dares a root-fed luminosity. Indeed, the speaker of Hard Damage transverses multiple way stations (Kabul, Berlin, Paris, New York City, and elsewhere), always carrying history and family through these migrations. This necessary collection possesses passion and wisdom."--Yusef Komunyakaa, author of The Emperor of Water Clocks, "We are born in the midst of past and ongoing violence. What does that mean as we reconcile our identities with the trauma rooted in our ancestry? What does it mean to be generations removed, and yet still contending with the inherited trauma of our ancestors? This collection reminds us of that undertaking. It urges us to wonder, reflect, and determine how to deal with the damage."--Tatiana Johnson, Florida Review, "To properly review the new collection Hard Damage . . . you simply want to copy the entire text of the book into your article and just say: Read this. I can add nothing. "--Joe Hoover, America: The Jesuit Review, "Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, Aber's ruminative lyrical debut tracks the movements of a twice-emigrated poet in poems that are personal and confessional."-- Publishers Weekly, "Recently, there has been some debate about "Best of" literary lists, whether they are too narrow in their scope or simply biased toward works that have been bestowed with awards, failing to consider the abundance of books that deserves a wider audience. Regardless of where you land in this debate, it's hard to imagine, as 2019 nears its end, that Hard Damage won't be on every one of those lists. It's an incredible achievement that doesn't sugarcoat the subjects it tackles, and if there is a book that so thoroughly explores the human condition this year, it is undoubtedly Aber's, one that will move you as much as it will stir serious discussion with others and, most importantly, with yourself."--Esteban Rodriguez, Pank Mag
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Hard Damage charts the intergenerational damage caused by war, environmental loss, and the collective grief of exile., 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 the consequences of these relations--in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and modern-day Islamic terrorism--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 as 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 employing surrealist and eerily domestic imagery.
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PS3601.B49A6 2019
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