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You’re Not a Girl in a Movie

Auteur(s): Hala Alyan
Narrateur(s): Hala Alyan
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"In poem after poem, there is raw emotion, straightforward storytelling, and unapologetic truth.” (NPR)

There exists, within [Alyan’s] poems, the cacophony that pervades our most intimate of relationships, a glistering sheen covering even the most banal interactions. Her poems feel as familiar as the prayers we make up in our own minds...they’re a quiet triumph, sacred and profane, and, most of all, grounded in humanity." (Nylon)

You’re Not a Girl in a Movie is a new collection of powerful poems by Hala Alyan, winner of the Arab American Book Award in Poetry and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In these nine extraordinary poems, Alyan wrestles with the intimate themes that have driven her acclaimed body of work to date: the aching loss of homeland, the image and worth of women, and the violence of love. In Beirut, Brooklyn, and roads in the American West, she unravels the effects of decades of war and displacement on love and human worth and identity. She speaks to mothers and grandmothers, past lovers and friends, and through her shimmering, wrenching glimpses of internal and political chaos, pleads for home.

©2020 Hala Alyan (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC. Patrimoine islamique Poésie Émotionnellement captivant
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Everything Hala Alyan writes makes me cry and I love her for it. Gorgeous, devastating poetry.

Beautiful, impactful, important

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Beautiful, heartbreaking, heartrending pretty from one of the greatest writers of this generation. What a blessing

Gorgeous

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As one other reviewer said, it turns out that I do like poetry. There are some powerful words, some powerful thoughts, and the staccato rythym of the repetition brings more power to the simplicity of the allusions, the memories, the thoughts.

These are not to be gluped down in one go, I set my audio to stop at the end of each poem, which gave me the immediacy of the mine and Hala's feelings.

I am so pleased that Audible offered this collection of poetry.

Powerful

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I found this very moving to listen to. not good for a car ride listen. it deserves your full attention

It's moving

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