FREE Kindle eBook - Poems On The Syrian Civil War
From the Fussy Librarian email list, a FREE Kindle eBook, “Voices From a Forgotten Letter: Poems on the Syrian Civil War (Chestnut Review Chapbooks)” by Seif-Eldeine.
The "Free" part should be good for at least all of today, Friday, April 19, 2024. But whether today or tomorrow, double-check and make sure the price at Amazon is still in fact FREE.
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For those outside the US, go to your country's Amazon site. Search for the eBook from there, and see if it's free. The Link below works for the US Amazon site, but (for example) probably won't let you get the book for free at “Amazon Canada”.
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From the Publisher's description:
Voices from a Forgotten Letter: Poems on the Syrian Civil War explores the Syrian Civil War from the perspectives of civilians, Unique in the war canon because of its focus on civilians, this book will give you a perspective of war you have never seen before. The civilians range from the young to the old, from the educated to the working class, from refugees to the wives of soldiers. Each civilian has a deep psyche brought about by the author's ties to the region, undergraduate degree, travel in the region before the war, and extensive research.
"A record of a country and people in crisis rendered in fearless, anguishing detail." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Praise for Voices From a Forgotten Letter:
A war correspondent of the imagination, Seif-Eldeine documents the Syrian conflict in a relentless present-tense and austere syntax reminiscent of Hemingway or Komunyakaa. These unforgettable voices speak to us from the kitchens, bars, and curbside jump rope games every bit as embattled as the front lines. What they never do is lecture or hector: “No blackboard, no chalk” begins “The Teacher at the Refugee Camp.” Nor do they censor the manic hilarity that combat can unleash—“the sound of a gun wasn’t it fun fun fun.” Eyes open to the “malevolent stars” presiding over Syria since 2011, Seif-Eldeine has written a war-torn, necessary book. —Steven Cramer
Poets write “war poems” for a host of reasons: to witness, to memorialize and commemorate, to celebrate, to lament, to protest, to confront, to make sense, to make war’s abstraction concrete, to document war’s extraordinary realities so they may not otherwise be forgotten. Seif-Eldeine attends to these all with grace, attentiveness, openness of heart, and skill. The result: poems that give back dignity recklessly taken; poems that insist on a new vision of reality, be it of the past, the present, or perhaps most crucially of all, the future. —Hayan Charara
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