Exiles of Eden
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: May 07, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781566895446
Description: "[This book] looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exploring displacement and alienation from its mythological origins to the present. In this formally experimental collection steeped in Somali narrative tradition, Osman gives voice to the experiences and traumas of displaced people over multiple generations. The characters in these poems encounter exile's strangeness while processing the profoundly isolating experience of knowing that that once you are sent out of Eden, you can't go back."--Provided by publisher.