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My Name on His Tongue: Poems

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Laila Halaby
2012
Published by: Syracuse University Press
Series: Arab American Writing
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This unique collection of poetry reaches out to readers of all kinds, offering the compelling voice of a woman who grew up and lived in the United State as an Arab and an American.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

Contents

pp. vii-ix

Acknowledgments

pp. xi

you can be a tourist at home

pp. 1-6

how a tour guide in Petra reminded me of all I’ve lost (or never had to begin with)

pp. 3-6

no matter how much zaatar you eat you still gotta work to be an Arab /writer/woman

pp. 7-35

the journey

pp. 9-17

grandfathers

pp. 18-19

di dove sei?1

pp. 20-22

home

pp. 23-25

browner shades of White

pp. 26-27

Air Force visitors

pp. 28-29

on going to the movies with a Jewish friend, 1990

pp. 30-32

silhouette of two women drinking coffee

pp. 33

letter to my brother

pp. 34-35

là où Dieu nous plante il faut savoir fl eurir or wherever God plants us we gotta find a way to bloom

pp. 37-81

exile

pp. 39

a call to Irbid

pp. 40

freedom fighter

pp. 41-42

identity card

pp. 43-44

one day in upstate New York

pp. 45

handfuls of wind

pp. 46-47

good morning

pp. 48-49

cheating

pp. 50-51

a moonlit visit

pp. 52-55

love thing

pp. 56-57

in the pockets of my dresses

pp. 58

your country

pp. 59-60

February

pp. 61-62

motherhood

pp. 63-64

home, again

pp. 65

final video snapshots on the way to the airport

pp. 66-71

home (one last time)

pp. 72

eid

pp. 73-74

yesterday

pp. 75-76

after a reading by Khaled Mattawa

pp. 77-80

colors

pp. 81

my grandma and your grandma were sittin’ by the fire . . .

pp. 83-128

letter to an Israeli soldier

pp. 85-89

refugee

pp. 90

August 16, 1990

pp. 91

a day at the park a few days Before

pp. 92-94

penmanship: the Iraq war, day 4

pp. 95-96

rage: the Iraq war, day 6

pp. 97-100

demonstrators

pp. 101-102

intentions

pp. 103-105

refugee (of love)

pp. 106-108

short video clip: Baghdad tattoo, November, 2006

pp. 109

taking a moment to thank our sponsors

pp. 110-111

could be Beirut, July, 2006

pp. 112-116

warning to all Arabs traveling back to the United States: TSA officials are now employing Israeli security tactics at the Newark airport or now would be a good time to go dumpster diving at Newark Liberty International Airport

pp. 117-120

strange men in my house

pp. 121-124

homeland security

pp. 125-127

an open letter to president-elect Barack Obama regarding the situation in Gaza

pp. 128
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