Jagadakeer: Apology To The Body (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
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- Synopsis
- Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryJagadakeer: Apology to the Body presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian descent. In this five-part testimony Lory Bedikian reconstructs the father figure, mother figure, and the self. Using a sestina, syllabics, prose poems, and longer poetic sequences, Bedikian creates elegies for parents lost and self-elegiac lyrics and narratives for living with illness. Often interrupted with monologues and rants, the poems grapple with the disorder of loss and the body&’s failures. Ultimately, Bedikian contemplates the concept of fate, destiny (jagadakeer), and the excavation of memory—whether to question familial inheritance or claim medical diagnoses.
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 108 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781496241276
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781496240125
- Publisher:
- Nebraska
- Date of Addition:
- 09/01/24
- Copyrighted By:
- the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.