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    Kaan and Her Sisters
    Kaan and Her Sisters
    Kaan and Her Sisters
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    Kaan and Her Sisters

    By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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    Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's Kaan and Her Sisters illuminates the work of grief and survival, the sordid legacies of official historical record and the liberatory practice of intimate narration. Tuffaha writes in the liminal space between languages, personifying Arabic verbs who guide the reader through a "history hurtling into the future."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrio House Press
    Release dateJul 1, 2023
    ISBN9781949487190
    Kaan and Her Sisters
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    Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

    Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her work has appeared in the Nation, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, and Southern Humanities Review. Her debut collection of poems, Water & Salt, won the 2018 Washington State Book Award and was a finalist for the Arab American Book Award. She lives in Redmond, Washington with her family.

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      Kaan and Her Sisters - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

      Copyright © July 1, 2023 Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

      No part of this book may be used or preformed without written consent of the author, if living, except for critical articles or reviews.

      Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf

      1st edition

      ISBN: 978-1-949487-14-5

      ISBN: 978-1-949487-19-0 (e-book)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2022949556

      Interior design by Natasha Kane

      Cover art by Sliman Mansour

      Cover design by Joel W. Coggins

      Editing by Halee Kirkwood and Natasha Kane

      Trio House Press, Inc.

      Minneapolis

      www.triohousepress.org

      The destruction has become the truth. It is the women who speak of the war.

      —Etel Adnan

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Facts on the Ground

      Miss Sahar Tells the Story

      Kaan and Her Sisters Consider the Past

      Upon A Time

      Miss Sahar Tells the Story of Spring

      Fashioned By Your Magic

      Coordinates

      Makaan

      [Interior] Bayt al Hatab

      Lesson: Direct Objects

      What Happens Next

      The Kingdom of Forgetting

      Étude

      Dear Miss Sahar, First Letter

      Dear Miss Sahar, Letter in Transit

      Miss Sahar Listens to Fairuz Sing The Bees’ Path

      Dear Miss Sahar, Third Letter

      Miss Sahar Listens to Fairuz Sing I’ll Write Your Name Habibi

      Dear Miss Sahar, Letter Between Translations

      Miss Sahar Recites The Throne Verse

      Miss Sahar Completes Her Application for Travel Documents

      Dear Miss Sahar, Letter After

      Sings Herself the Rubble

      Dear Miss Sahar, Letter Without Address

      Kaan and Her Sisters Return

      Miss Sahar Listens to Fairuz Sing Take Me

      Laissez-Passez

      Lemon Blossoms

      [Interior] Bustaan

      Amsa Gives the Journalists a Tour of Yarmouk

      Kaan and Her Sisters Survive the Siege

      [Interior] Namleeya

      Lesson: Metaphor

      [Interior] Khazaaneh

      Rootwork

      Baata At the Ruins

      Lesson: Nymphaeum

      Notes

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      About the Artist

      Facts on the Ground

      After February’s fallow clouds, a fraying

      whip snaps the air, our bones

      a winter kingdom. Silence,

      our shroud, no longer softens

      absence. The phone lines were always crowded

      and now new frontiers for listening, for the theft

      of our whispers. The unmarked van that arrives

      at the end of the road is the only country

      that never hesitates to take us in. Why

      this particular corpse? Why this

      particular death and not the many

      before it, emblazoned

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