In Country
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: In Country Sad mothers gaze at the flagpole which is wetted by the sun. Stars forever. Stars at night.—Fadhil al-Azzawiwe called it. Called it like my uncle called his months in Saigon. Slow addition of nights & days away from the States. Three-sixty-five and a wakeup, we’d say. The sand-box. The desert. Over there. Or justthere. Where, missing my own mother, I pushed an Iraqi boy from a courtyard while his mother watched. Where I wo...
Source: Revue LISA / LISA e-journal
DOI: 10.4000/lisa.12198
Author: Hugh Martin
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4313023304