MEDITERRANEAN LATTICE

About the Book

Mediterranean Lattice:

Eastern Shadows over Western Mirage

"Poetry is a long, pent up scream-an echo which resounds in the secrecy of hearts."
-Al Mazini (1890–1949).

The following poems were written during a young girl's summer traveling alone through France, Spain, Germany and Italy. Reminders of her Arabic ancestry emerge, despite her excitement and aesthetic encounters, as she moves to discover that she is a nexus of cultural diversity. The daughter of Muslim-Palestinian mother and a Christian-Iraqi father, these poems are the products of her working through the feelings of dislocation and tension that have resulted from her being bombarded by multiple cultural influences. These poems link Eastern and Western Mediterranean cultures that have influenced the poet through her life. They are the lattices of her multi-layered heritage and upbringing. Each mesmerizing, elementally unique country inspires different poetic arrangements of sensation and sentiment-provide texture to her experience. They are "the windows" through which she peers out at the world.

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About the Author

Farrah Sarafa is an award winning poet, writer and Professor of Literature and Writing. Editor-in-Chief of Fractyll Culture Magazine www.fractyll.com she founded in 2016, she has had her poems published in textbooks and literary journals such as Litchfield review, Ascent Aspirations, Avatar Review, Borderhopping, Diagram, Chistell, Tablets, Village Voice, Mediterranean NU, Palestinian Chronicle and more. Having obtained her second masters from Columbia University under the tutelage of Edward Said, her first novel is pending publication.