Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems

by Rachel Mennies and Lubna Safi

Your Blue and the Quiet Lament records the textures of grief after a cousin's 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 Garc?a Lorca and that of her cousin, Lubna's poetry contends with personal loss by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682831396
• ISBN13: 9781682831397
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"