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“Original and fascinating in its design, this unclassifiable book written between poetry, narrative and conversations thinks our relationship to the world between private and political. The hybrid invents new spaces away from unique roots, between real and poetic space.”
\n\u2014Carole David<\/span>, Grand Prix du livre jury chair<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201dThe Good Arabs<\/i> is a collection of both verse and prose poems that explores place and belonging. The poems take readers from post-explosion Beirut to Montreal in the summer and reflect on communities, identity and families both biological and chosen.”
\n\u2014<\/span>CBC Books<\/em><\/a>, “45 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in fall 2021”<\/p>\n

“Reading El Bechelany-Lynch, you are reminded to come with tenderness to the work of ordinary things so that something larger and more lasting can begin.”
\n\u2014Canisia Lubrin, autrice de The Dyzgraphxst<\/em><\/p>\n

“Everything about The Good Arabs<\/em> is open-ended, curious, trying. El Bechelany-Lynch constructs a freeing poetic atmosphere, in which central concerns regarding spaces, family, tragedy, inheritance, and gender are swelling in the heat of each room.”
\n\u2014Emily Mernin, Montreal Review of Books<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch\u2019s The Good Arabs<\/em> is a map of what it means to be queer, to be trans, to be Arab: from the hope of revolution to the Lebanese garbage crisis, of whiteness and its weight, of public space and private space and of eating pumpkin seeds on a summer balcony when the power is out. Even at its heaviest, this is a collection that insists on joy and on embodiment, reminding us that resistance can look like shaking one\u2019s hips to Nancy Ajram, too.”
\n\u2014Zeyn Joukhadar, author of The Thirty Names of Night<\/em><\/p>\n

“Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch’s exceptional The Good Arab<\/i>s is an invitation to consider the \u2018cost\u2019 of living one’s truth and what it might mean to remember what has always been known. Their work holds an intimacy as if we are overhearing a phone conversation or the author speaking on a balcony above us. \u2018Noises impossible in English\u2019 come through here, wrought in a mind attuned to tenderness and present conflicts. This is a bold and deeply necessary work. I am better for having read it.”
\n\u2014Liz Howard, autrice de Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent<\/i>laur\u00e9ate du prix Griffin pour la po\u00e9sie 2016<\/p>\n

Autaire: Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch<\/a><\/p>\n

Couverture : Lee Lai<\/p>\n

Design: LOKI<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disponible en format papier (pour les personnes r\u00e9sidant au Canada et aux \u00c9tats-Unis), PDF (disponible partout), et EPUB (disponible partout).<\/p>\n

by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch<\/p>\n

Automne 2021<\/p>\n

Laur\u00e9at, Grand Prix du livre de Montr\u00e9al<\/strong>
\nMention, liste de recommandation The Globe 100 : The Books We Loved in 2021<\/strong>
\nMention honorable, prix du livre arabo-am\u00e9ricain<\/strong>
\nMention honorable, prix Khayrallah<\/strong>
\nFinaliste, prix Nouvel Apport Metropolis bleu<\/strong><\/p>\n

The The Good Arabs<\/em> se situent \u00e0 l\u2019intersection du lieu, de la langue et du corps. \u00c9plucher et rincer des radis. Une pr\u00e9-adolescence pass\u00e9e \u00e0 danser sur du Nancy Ajram. Ne pas pouvoir \u00e9chapper au regard des autres dans le transport en commun. Le recueil rend hommage \u00e0 la diversit\u00e9 des communaut\u00e9s revendiqu\u00e9es par El Bechelany-Lynch, \u00e0 ses environnements g\u00e9ographiques \u00e0 la fois vastes et pr\u00e9cis, et \u00e0 sa famille autant biologique que choisie.<\/p>\n

The Good Arabs<\/em> nous invite \u00e0 r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir aux cycles et aux sch\u00e9mas r\u00e9p\u00e9titifs qui caract\u00e9risent nos vies et celles de nos nations bris\u00e9es. Cette \u0153uvre in\u00e9dite cartographie les identit\u00e9s arabe et trans \u00e0 travers l\u2019immensit\u00e9 de l\u2019exp\u00e9rience ressentie dans un m\u00eame corps, le chagrin des personnes d\u00e9\u00e7ues par leur pays, et la crise des ordures au Liban. En fin de compte, elle nous montre comment nous pouvons aimer malgr\u00e9 la consternation, adorer l\u2019\u00e2cret\u00e9 et la laideur, et vivre notre multiplicit\u00e9 \u00e0 travers les espaces.<\/p>\n

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch<\/strong> est un \u00e9crivain qui vit \u00e0 Tio\u2019ti\u00e0:ke. Ses \u00e9crits ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s dans dans l'anthologie<\/i> The Best Canadian Poetry 2018, GUTS<\/i>, carte blanche<\/i>, the Shade Journal<\/i>, The New Quarterly<\/i>, Arc Poetry Magazine<\/i>, et ailleurs. Son po\u00e8me Nancy Ajram Made Me Gay a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomin\u00e9 pour le prix de po\u00e9sie de la CBC en 2019. Son livre knot body<\/i> (2020), publi\u00e9 par Metatron Press, a \u00e9t\u00e9 en lice pour le prix du premier livre de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Concordia de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des \u00e9crivains du Qu\u00e9bec. The Good Arabs<\/i> (2021), publi\u00e9 par les \u00c9ditions M\u00e9tonymie, a remport\u00e9 le Grand Prix du livre de Montr\u00e9al 2022 et a re\u00e7u une mention honorable lors de l\u2019\u00e9dition 2022 des Prix du livre arabo-am\u00e9ricain pour le prix de po\u00e9sie George-Ellenbogen.<\/p>\n

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