Four Cities

" Following her mesmerizing debut collection Atrium, Hala Alyan offers a sustaining and luminous meditation on love and war in Four Cities. Baghdad, New York, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Detroit and Paris are just names on maps, 'for when maps fold and countries vanish... it is just you and the dust you carry on your skin.' These gritty, volatile communities dissolve into dreamscapes, redolent with lemons, dazzled with snow, awake to conversation and kisses. The sky is always open for possibilities: fireworks, moonlight, the call to prayer, dandelions parachuting through the air. What a splendid majestic if troubled world we find ourselves in love in."
-- D.A. Powell, author of Chronic and Cocktails

Author: Hala Alyan

Publisher: Black Lawrence Press

Publication Date: Sep 01, 2015

Number of Pages: 104 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 162557939X

ISBN-13: 9781625579393