Lemon Language - Softcover

Yossef, Hager

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798230719823

Publisher: Sulfur Editions, 2024

Synopsis

In this collection, you perceive, with a sharp and intense eye, clarity as precise as a lens, the humanization of inanimate objects and the deconstruction of the other's entity as a puzzle.

A series of poems about a lost self, trembling and mad love, about the extremities of marginalized and visible emotions, expressed in a sharp and poignant language that feels like citrus-penetrating the half-closed box, compulsory psychosis, and excessive sleep, laying it all bare on the table of the present. This is the tongue and core of the new language; it envelops you in a fragrance-laden expression, a green invasion of a damaged and worn memory, from which entire chapters of life have fallen: silent conversations, a first love, a mother's hand, long hair, and the smiles of strangers. In this collection, you believe that through poetry, you can see clearly and find new doors through the cracks of a treacherous and flawed memory, yet you cannot escape the language.

About this title

About the Author

Hagar Youssef is an Egyptian poet and writer based in Cairo. She has published a poetry collection titled "A Damaged Memory" in Arabic and she is currently working on two collection stories: "Dreaming With Two Heads" and "One Day." She graduated from the Faculty of Education - Department of Sciences. She has written for various platforms, including those focused on feminism and gender studies. Her work explores the essence of language, deeply influenced by philosophers Roland Barthes and Georges Bataille, in linking love, pain, and death to language, deconstructing these themes. She is also passionate about translating literature and poetry, reviewing books, and writing journalistic and critical articles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sulfur Editions
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798230719823
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124