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Texas Tech University Press, hardcover

Publication Date: August 2, 2022

Publisher Marketing:Your Blue and the Quiet Lamentrecords the textures of grief after a cousins murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative of arrest, imprisonment, and torture in Syria and interweave the difficulties a family experiences in the diaspora.

Shifting between the death of poet Federico Garca Lorca and that of her cousin, Lubnas poetry contends with personal loss by distancing the meaning of one death through the intermediary of another. Yet the distortion of distance is already therein the language, in the geographic space, in time, in the grief itselftinged with blue.

As she recalls childhood memories and imagines conversations with her dead cousin, Lubnas poetry whispers, calls out, sings, laments, pens letters, photographs, sketches, paints, and prays in an attempt to exhaust grief.