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Jayson Iwen is author of Six Trips in Two Directions, Co-Winner of the 2005 Emergency Press book contest.
Six Trips in Two Directions is a smart and arresting account of Jayson Iwen's first years teaching and living in Beirut during renewed political upheaval in Lebanon and the onset of the second Iraq war. Six Trips alternates between a rare lyrical grace and straightforward, dire dialogue punctuated by dark humor. The result is a journey across borders and between worlds rooted in the poet's best kind of travel-that of the lost philosopher seeking some kind of sense in the present, and for the future. Iwen combines well measured, discursive forms with a rendition of the traditional Arabic Zajal, giving readers multiple angles on global debates over identity, economy, religion, and science. |
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