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Disenchanted and Disgruntled
Poet Michelle Hartman pokes society in the eye with a sharp wit. This is not your mama's poetry. There is no stocking too blue, no blood too thick, no cow too sacred to escape revelation in Michelle's own inimitable style. From the rhapsodic "Snow Project" to the ribald "Grandmother's Got Game," Michelle exposes all our foibles with penetrating precision. Her poetry will make you giggle, will make you gasp, may even make you gnash your teeth. What it will never do is leave you unmoved.
Irony and Irreverence
In this, her second full collection of poems, Michelle Hartman continues the breathtakingly honest, articulate, insightful, bawdy, hilarious, revelatory, and incomparably zany diatribe which she so poignantly launched with Disenchanted and Disgruntled. Nothing escapes her incisive, ironic eye, not even her own hallowed art of poetry. No other poet would even attempt to blend such unlikely elements as mistresses, Robert Hass, social injustice, Pavlov, adultery, Ted Cruz, inbreeding, Buddha, feminism, John Donne, legal chicanery, W. S. Merwin, Chupacabra, and countless additional and disparate ingredients into a "poetic stew" so gourmet and delectable.
What the War Left Behind
Conspicuously missing from narratives of the Lebanese Civil War are the stories of women who took part in daily social activism and political organizing during the tumultuous conflict. What the War Left Behind documents their stories, with eight women directly sharing their experiences of action and survival through the hardship of war. What the War Left Behind brings together oral histories of women from a range of political affiliations, socioeconomic classes, and religious identities. These histories present an alternative image of women during war, highlighting the actions of those who sought to make life better for themselves and their neighbors during conflict. By centering women’s voices in the war, Abisaab and Hartman present a new perspective on an oft-discussed historical era, demonstrating the power of resistance during difficult times. These translated texts showcase the active roles women take during wartime and how women’s political efforts are an essential part of Lebanese history.
The Lost Journal of My Second Trip to Purgatory
Michelle Hartman's third book of poetry, The Lost Journal of my Second Trip to Purgatory is a change from her other work. It is a volume containing poems calling attention to child abuse. At times deep and darkly disturbing, her words shed light on a serious problem in America. Michelle is a multiple Pushcart nominee. Her work has also appeared overseas in Ireland, Germany, Australia, Canada and Nepal. She is the editor of the award-winning journal, Red River Review, www.redriverreview.com.
A Sky So Close to Us
A multigenerational tale of love, loss, exile, and rebirth, shortlisted for the 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. As children sleeping on the rooftop of their ancestral family home in Raqqa on warm summer nights, Joumane and her sisters imagine the sky is so close they can almost touch it. Years later, Joumane lives as an expatriate in Jordan, working for a humanitarian agency, while her sisters remain trapped in war-torn Syria. Living alone as she fights her own battle with cancer, she contemplates the closeness of the same sky, despite the sharply delineated borders that now separate her from her family. Her only close confidant is another exile, a charming, divorced Palestinian...
Wanton Disarray
In this, her fourth full collection of poems, Michelle Hartman continues her breathtakingly honest, bawdy, and shockingly precise narrative look, this time at love and loss. The book begins with breakup poems, as Hartman says, ?You can't appreciate love 'till you?ve kissed the curb once.? The book's second half is an honest look at love when it's so good ?Our futures filled with insatiable appetites.? Hartman has been published in numerous journals in America and overseas. She holds a BS in Political Science Pre-Law and is the former editor of Red River Review.
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim that these writers express a Francophile or “colonized” consciousness, this book demonstrates how Lebanese women writers actively question the political and cultural meaning of writing in French in Lebanon. Hartman argues that their innovative language inscribes messages about society into their novels by disrupting class-status hierarchies, narrow ethno-religious identities, and rigid gender roles. Because the languages of these texts reflect the crucial issues of their times, Native Tongue, Stranger Talk guides the reader through three key periods of Lebanese history: the French Mandate and Early Independence, the Civil War, and the postwar period. Three novels are discussed in each time period, exposing the contours of how the authors “write Arabic in French” to invent new literary languages.
The Adventures of Natasha and Sophia: Princess Cats and the Crystal of Eternity
Princess cats Natasha and Sophia embark on a magical quest to find the powerful Crystal of Eternity. Guided by an ancient prophecy, they must outwit dark forces and protect their kingdom from impending doom. A tale of bravery, sisterhood, and adventure in the Enchanted Kingdom.
The Silent Whispers
In Harrow Creek, journalist Emily Ross's life changes after witnessing strange lights. Abducted by enigmatic beings, she uncovers humanity’s secret interactions with extraterrestrials. Delving into ancient texts and government secrets, Emily exposes a hidden facility and faces powerful forces, leading to a climactic showdown that changes history.In Harrow Creek, journalist Emily Ross's life changes after witnessing strange lights. Abducted by enigmatic beings, she uncovers humanity’s secret interactions with extraterrestrials. Delving into ancient texts and government secrets, Emily exposes a hidden facility and faces powerful forces, leading to a climactic showdown that changes history.
Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
Understanding the complexities of Arab politics, history, and culture has never been more important for North American readers. Yet even as Arabic literature is increasingly being translated into English, the modern Arabic literary tradition is still often treated as other--controversial, dangerous, difficult, esoteric, or exotic. This volume examines modern Arabic literature in context and introduces creative teaching methods that reveal the literature's richness, relevance, and power to anglophone students. Addressing the complications of translation head on, the volume interweaves such important issues such as gender, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the status of Arabic literature in world literature. Essays cover writers from the recent past, like Emile Habiby and Tayeb Salih; contemporary Palestinian, Egyptian, and Syrian literatures; and the literature of the nineteenth-century Nahda.
