{"id":1435,"date":"2008-12-19T19:57:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T00:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-20\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:50:22","slug":"bride-minaret","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/bride-minaret\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bride Minaret"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Heathen]\u2019s second collection journeys to the rough core of desire, creating and destroying binaries along the way. Familiar artifacts of domesticity become as volatile as land mines, and the streets of Damascus, Calcutta, and other faraway locales obliterate the American landscape. Yet [Heathen]\u2019s poetry transcends time and place, illuminating the ties that bind man to woman, mother to child. The Bride Minaret<\/i> is a relentless chronicle of experience, where the sacred and profane become interchangeable, where \u201cEvery tent has a name, and every name is the breath of you.”<\/p>\n

The Bride Minaret is a book of emotional, literary, and cultural substance. As Mandelson wrote of Auden: the poems bear witness to the close connection between intelligence and love. The same can be said for [Heathen], whose work is global, with settings in Iraq, British Columbia, Algiers, Paris, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Cairo, the West Bank, and various U.S. locations. [Their] poems are intercultural, expansive while still grounded in the evocative complexities of motherhood, childhood, and faith. <\/i>The Bride Minaret is a wonderfully intense collection.<\/i>
\n\u2014Denise Duhamel, author of Two and Two<\/i> and Mille et un sentiments<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

In <\/i>The Bride Minaret, [Heathen] explores the complex and difficult realities of our global world more comprehensively and comprehendingly than most American poets consider even attempting. Often paying close attention to those displaced and\/or disconnected from the society around them\u2014Arabs in Europe, Americans in the Middle East, Mennonites in Iowa, Balkan refugees, Roma orphans, Palestinians, and, at the heart of the book, a mother now separated from her former, childless self\u2014these poems ultimately argue that dislocation is itself a kind of location, just as living forever in one place can end up dislocating oneself from the realities of our time.<\/i>
\n\u2014Wayne Miller, author of Only the Senses Sleep<\/i> and The Book of Props<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

About the author<\/h3>\n

[Heathen]<\/h4>\n
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[Heathen] was born in Dallas, Texas in 1971. They spent most of her childhood in Fredericksburg, Virginia. They earned her BA in art history from the University of Virginia and went on to earn an MFA in poetry writing from the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop. Their poems have appeared in New York Quarterly, TriQuarterly, Fence,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Margie<\/i>. Their first book of poems, Each End of the World<\/i>\u00a0(Main Street Rag Press, 2005), was about the war in Bosnia in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by [Heathen]<\/h3>\n

Pages: 75; Size: 6″ x 9″
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