The Lost Arabs
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Pub Date Jan 14 2020 | Archive Date Jan 13 2020
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Description
Visceral and energetic, Sakr’s poetry confronts the complicated notion of “belonging” when one’s family, culture, and country are at odds with one’s personal identity. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, The Lost Arabs is a fierce, urgent collection from a distinct new voice.
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781524854010 |
| PRICE | $16.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 112 |
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 592455
Thank you to Netgalley for giving me an arc of this collection!
Some favorites from this collection:
Self-Portrait as Poetry Defending Itself
The Exhibition of Autobiography
Extermination
At the Site of the Future Memorial
Every Day
A Beautiful Child
This was a very solid collection, although I think it would have been better had the poems been grouped thematically. They totally could have been and I just missed the connections. But it just felt like emotional whiplash every now and again. Some of my favorite poems from this collection had to do with the author's queerness and his relationships with his family members.
I enjoyed more poems than I did not, and would highly recommend to anyone that is interested in poetry.
Educator 513612
*I received an ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thanks for the free book of poetry.*
Omar Sakr is a bisexual Australian-Arab poet and his poetry deals with queerness, politics, love, family, and being Arab. I was surprised how fragile and concise the short poems were, I loved that he meantioned the djinn American Gods episode, and how fluent and natural all the poems sound. Not all poems worked for me, but they do not have to. If you want to experience what it means to be a bisexual poet with a diverse background.
One of my favourite poems was this one:
"You are not as tired of diaspora / poetry as I am of the diaspora. Sometimes // I thank God that I was born inside an American / -made tank. Sometimes I weep within // the beast. My uncle works on the railroads / and goes home to his nuclear family loathing // my queerness from afar." (A Beautiful Child, 40)
4 Stars
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