Syrena in Space

Winner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize

LA SYRENA.

For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore.

My home is Syria and Syria for me is like the sea. I want nothing more than to jump in and swim around forever. In Syria I am declared wanted, like so many of us displaced lunar divas. The longing I feel is the deepest kind. It could crack the whole earth open.

I am a Lumerian from Ancient Sumeria, a southern space creature in a northern world, LA SYRNENA, zhe is my destiny.

In this collection, each poem flows like water on the page. The author weaves in stories ? mantras ? revolutionary messages ? the movement of arabic letters ? the memory of Sumerian cuneiform.

This book is a hybrid creature between poem-story-form that crosses genres like it crosses dimensions. In this work, you are the mermaid. You are the forever migrant, a traveler between the oceanic and the extraterrestrial, across continents and planets.

You are a time traveler, and you speak many languages. You are LA SYRENA, conjuring your own space to feel free.