Book set in Lebanon. Reviewed on 2019/05: https://www.instagram.com/p/BxsWzXshu_e/
I loved #wantinginarabic because it’s such a relentlessly #transgressive book: #transgender #transnational , #transgenre , #translingual , #transpersonal . After a few #poemsyou think you are beginning to understand the human called #trishsalah but suddenly something new comes along and it all finally becomes #transcendent . There are a lot of #questioning and dialogues between the #salah living today and her past and her identity and her history and the history of those before her. The “action” goes fast here and the reader is not given much time to process anything. It’s an act of feeling instead of understanding. Drawing from her own diverse background and life experience between #canada and #lebanon , she ferociously creates her own writing based on her own voice. Salah’s pandora’s box is open and it has it all: #tiresias and #sappho , #phoenicia , l’écriture feminine and even a few ghazals . There is a #ghazalfor the Israeli transgender and Eurovision diva #danainternationalwhich it’s a must read. #highlyrecommended#canadianpoetry #lebanesepoetry#genderqueerlit #tsarbooks
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