Threa Almontaser
Auteur de The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems
Œuvres de Threa Almontaser
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- Sexe
- female
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 62
- Popularité
- #271,094
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 3
My favorites:
p36 Guide to Gardening Your Roots (after Natalie Diaz)--I have read 2 of Diaz's collections and astill don't get the reference. I especially liked the section about her father--missing a place that no longer exists as he knew it. The writing is strong and evocative.
p43 Yemen Rising as Poorest Country in the World. This actually has much of the same feel as the section about her father in poem above.
All of the poems that are about Yemen I found interesting--she evokes the place. Her poems touching on America mostly confused me--Yemen is desert America not, and it seems to consist of Muslim outcasts and white people. That's it. Yemeni-Americans are defined as Muslim, Americans are described as white (though many Americans of all colors/ethnicities would touch on their religion as a main identifier--just as she does, and she IS American). She was born in NY and now lives in NC--places I have not been since I was a kid. She teaches English to immigrants and refugees, so clearly she knows America is not as simple as she portrays it in this collection, yet there it is.… (plus d'informations)