{"product_id":"la-syrena-visions-of-a-syrian-mermaid-from-space-9781950539444","title":"La Syrena: Visions of a Syrian Mermaid from Space","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore. My home is Syria and Syria for me is like the sea. I want nothing more than to jump in and swim around forever. In Syria I am declared wanted, like so many of us displaced lunar divas. The longing I feel is the deepest kind. It could crack the whole earth open. I am a Lumerian from Ancient Sumeria, a southern space creature in a northern world, LA SYRNENA, zhe is my destiny. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this collection, each poem flows like water on the page. The author weaves in stories و mantras و revolutionary messages و the movement of arabic letters و the memory of Sumerian cuneiform. This book is a hybrid creature between poem-story-form that crosses genres like it crosses dimensions. In this work, you are the mermaid. You are the forever migrant, a traveler between the oceanic and the extraterrestrial, across continents and planets. You are a time traveler, and you speak many languages. You are LA SYRENA, conjuring your own space to feel free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEl-Ghadbanah, Banah:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Banah is an extraterrestial from Syria raised in the u.s. south. Zhe is a soothsayer, a sheikha-in-training, a mermaid from space. Banah is wanted by the Syrian regime for 50 million lira for telling their family's story of exile and resistance. Zhe has a PhD in Ethnic Studies and writes about Syrian women's poetics in revolution, siege, and diaspora.","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50507471028498,"sku":"9781950539444","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6cd8ead5-7556-4097-bb56-b1825d41f030.jpg?v=1730862178","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/la-syrena-visions-of-a-syrian-mermaid-from-space-9781950539444","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}