Sea Turtle Sonnet

IF 0.4 4区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

SOUTHERN CULTURES Pub Date : 2024-03-13 DOI:10.1353/scu.2024.a922027

Zeina Hashem Beck

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Sea Turtle Sonnet
Zeina Hashem Beck (bio)

After Cairokee

Our parents stayed during the civil war.Don't say we escaped, just that we too failed.We left Beirut on the verge of collapse& revolution. That clearing of hope,where would we be without it? Ask Ziad,who put the city on a stage & laughedat its slow ways of killing us with pillsor memory. So many of us screamin concerts & sleep. When in doubt, try kohl.The artist with Cairo in his name sings"This is a cause," friend, "& that's another:"save sea turtles & ignore oppression,poppies. When the dark times come, try yoga.Don't say we betrayed, just that we too feared. [End Page 134] Don't say we betrayed, just that we too fearedpoppies. When the dark times come, try yoga,save sea turtles & ignore oppression."This is a cause," friend, "& that's another."The artist with Cairo in his name singsin concerts & sleep. When in doubt, try kohlor memory—so many of us screamat its slow ways of killing us with pills.Who put the city on a stage & laughed?Where would we be without it? Ask Ziad& revolution, that clearing of hope.We left Beirut, on the verge of collapse.Don't say we escaped, just that we too failedour parents, stayed during the civil war.

Zeina Hashem Beck

zeina hashem beck is a Lebanese poet. Her third poetry collection, titled O, was published by Penguin Books in July 2022. It won the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Poetry and was named a Best Book 2022 by Lit Hub and the New York Public Library.

notes

This sonnet references a song by "Cairokee," and the line This is a cause, and that's another is quoted directly from it. The song also mentions sea turtles as follows: They save sea turtles, they kill human animals. Cairokee, "Telk Qadeya (This Cause)," CairokeeOfficial channel on YouTube, November 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf3BvhjWTKg.

Ziad refers to Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese musician and playwright. "That clearing of hope" is a nod to a line by Al-Tughra'i, a line which Ziad satirizes in one of his plays.

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海龟十四行诗

以下是内容的简要摘录，以代替摘要：海龟十四行诗 Zeina Hashem Beck (bio) After Cairokee 我们的父母在内战期间留了下来。不要说我们逃脱了，只是我们也失败了。如果没有希望之光，我们会在哪里？问问齐亚德吧，他把这座城市搬上舞台，嘲笑它用药片或记忆慢慢杀死我们。我们中的许多人在音乐会和睡眠中尖叫。这位以开罗为名的艺术家唱道："这是一项事业，"朋友，"& 那是另一项事业："拯救海龟& 无视压迫，罂粟花。不要说我们背叛，只说我们也害怕。[不要说我们背叛，只是我们也害怕罂粟花。当黑暗来临时，试试瑜伽，拯救海龟& 忽略压迫。"这是一个原因，"朋友，"& 那是另一个原因。"名字里有开罗的艺术家在音乐会上唱歌& 睡觉。当有疑问时，不妨试试开罗的记忆--我们中的许多人都在尖叫，它用缓慢的方式用药丸杀死了我们。"是谁把这座城市搬上舞台的？我们离开了濒临崩溃的贝鲁特。不要说我们是逃出来的，只是我们也辜负了我们的父母，在内战期间留了下来。Zeina Hashem Beck Zeina Hashem Beck 是黎巴嫩诗人。她的第三部诗集《O》于 2022 年 7 月由企鹅出版社出版。该诗集荣获 2023 年阿拉伯裔美国人诗歌图书奖，并被 Lit Hub 和纽约公共图书馆评为 2022 年最佳图书。注释这首十四行诗引用了 "Cairokee "的一首歌，其中的 "This is a cause, and that's another"（这是一个原因，那是另一个原因）直接引自这首歌。这首歌还提到了海龟，内容如下他们拯救海龟，他们杀害人类动物。Cairokee，"Telk Qadeya (This Cause)"，YouTube 上的 Cairokee 官方频道，2023 年 11 月，https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf3BvhjWTKg。Ziad 指黎巴嫩音乐家和剧作家 Ziad Rahbani。"希望之光 "是对 Al-Tughra'i 的一句台词的点赞，Ziad 在他的一部剧作中对这句台词进行了讽刺。版权所有 © 2024 美国南方研究中心在《国际人文科学》中索引完整 ...

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期刊介绍： In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.