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Availability:In StockContributor:Ruth AwadPublish date:2022-10-31Pages:80
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Southern Indiana Review PressISBN-13:9781930508538ISBN-10:1930508530UPC:9781930508538Book Category:Poetry, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, Subjects & Themes, Arab & Middle EasternBook Topic:FamilySize:8.19 x 5.60 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.29Product ID:SCMDTTGJWD

Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Poetry Award

In Lebanon during the civil war, a teenage boy and his family witness leveled cities, displaced civilians, the aftermath of massacres. Resources are scarce and uncertainty is everywhere. What does it mean to survive? To leave behind a home torn apart by war? To carry the burden of what you've seen across an ocean?

These poems follow a man in search of security as he leaves his country for America, falls in love, and becomes a single father to three daughters. Through the perspective of one man, his family, and even his country, Set to Music a Wildfire explores the violence of living, the guilt of surviving, the loneliness of faith, and the impossible task of belonging.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Southern Indiana Review PressISBN-13:9781930508538ISBN-10:1930508530UPC:9781930508538Book Category:Poetry, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, Subjects & Themes, Arab & Middle EasternBook Topic:FamilySize:8.19 x 5.60 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.29Product ID:SCMDTTGJWD
Ruth Awad is a Lebanese-American poet, a 2021 NEA Poetry fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry (Sundress Publications, 2020). She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and she won the 2013 and 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and the 2011 Copper Nickel Poetry Contest. Her work appears in The Atlantic, AGNI, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The New Republic, Pleiades, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and she lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio.
Publisher: Southern Indiana Review Press

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