Something sinister

Author

Hayan Charara

Call Number

• 811 C4696 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016.

Physical Description

69 pages ; 22 cm.

Summary

These poems grapple with conflicts arising from a world in which the personal, political, cultural, and aesthetic are deeply entangled and often troubling. Charara does not shy away from the tensions, unease, doubts, regrets, or bafflement of this world; and his wide-ranging focus brings together people from all walks of life-a father obsessed with the boxer Muhammad Ali; a girl missing since the 1970s; a mother and daughter trapped in a submerged vehicle; and a suicide bomber, his witnesses, and victims.

Contents

• Being Muslim
• What is mine
• Animals
• Why the weather matters
• You
• Starved dogs eating snow
• 23,627 miles
• The trees
• Prayer for the living
• The weather
• Narrative
• Once
• The other side
• In a perfect world
• Mother and daughter
• The God experience
• Man sleeping in the interstate
• The rules
• Signs
• A story
• In memoriam
• Family portrait
• O Mother, O Father
• Something sinister is going on
• Dog
• O!
• Usage.