Description
-Shahé Mankerian, History of Forgetfulness (Fly on the Wall Press, 2021)
Yasmin Mariam Kloth's writing is arresting and acute, filled with deep sensory encounters of the human form, of air and land, of language and music, of keepsakes and customs and coffee and lime and the "place where the river is older / than pieces of the sky." These poems skillfully interrogate multiple modes of betweenness-diasporic consciousness, medical and genetic uncertainty, the turning-over of generations-in order to ask hard and essential questions about identity, lineage, and what it means to look to the past and the future. I'm grateful for Kloth's poems in the world.
-Natalie Shapero, Popular Longing (Copper Canyon, 2021)
Traveling the lines of these poems from "Grandmother," to "Mother," to "Daughter," Yasmin
Mariam Kloth weaves threads between her Middle Eastern heritage and her life in Ohio. In yearning to connect with and live inside an "unfinished ancestry," Kloth bridges the "distance (between) language and loss" eloquently and with great love, "search(ing) for parts of (her)self" amid family stories and traditions. These carefully-crafted poems address such subjects as dementia, ritual, memory, and language, and call upon the "small things"-a phone call, a daughter's face, a palm tree-to reveal fingerprints of belonging that mark the way home.
-Sandy Coomer, The Broken Places (Saddle Road Press, 2021)
Author: Yasmin Mariam Kloth
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: 08/03/2022
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d
ISBN13: 9781639801749
ISBN10: 163980174X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
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