Wanting in Arabic

by Trish Salah

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Fiction, 2014

Wanting in Arabic is a refusal of convenient silences, convenient stories. The author dwells on the contradictions of a transsexual poetics, in its attendant disfigurations of lyric, ghazal, l'ecriture feminine, and, in particular, her own sexed voice. Without a memory of her father's language, the questions her poems ask are those for a home known through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927494303
• ISBN13: 9781927494301
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Tsar Publications
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Cool Transgender Poetry

Wanting in Arabic is a really surprising book because it is about so many things like transgender and sexuality and war but is still interesting as poetry. What I like best about it is that even though the language could be difficult in places, the ideas do shine through. It seems like a really honest book by someone who has lived a lot.

beautiful poetry

Trish Salah is a beautiful poet. At times the language is difficult, she's an academic, but her writing is the better for it. She is very evocative and expresses profound emotions.