Zmagria

By Mouna Ammar

Zmagria, Mouna's debut collection of poems celebrates a familiar and fresh mosaic of a woman paying homage to her roots and contemporary realities as she imagines in print. Mouna invites you to contemplate the tiles she carries in a box owned by a daughter of North African immigrants who found themselves in Los Angeles, a town very reminiscent of their "home"... a town where the swaying mezcla of languages, landscapes, flavors, and cultural traditions all draw immigrants to understand, in their deepest, and beyond the reach of clich , that they are of the other and the other is in themselves. These poems offer a gallery walk through Mouna's sojourns, their timbre at times soft, and stark at others. Mouna's writing borrows imagery and aesthetics of North Africa and Southern California both - a Mediterranean-connected aesthetic that is perfectly at ease playing in the spaces of hybridity, even, and maybe especially, when that play involves movement.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956697306
• ISBN13: 9781956697308
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Fifth Avenue Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"