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Availability:In StockContributor:Sahar MuradiSeries:Pitt PoetryPublish date:2023-10-10Pages:120
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822967088ISBN-10:822967081UPC:9780822967088Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.01 x 6.13 x 0.12 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SCE6SQ236F
OCTOBERS traces the four great tumults of the author's life, all of which originated in that jagged month of different years: The US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of her daughter. The poems chart heartbreak along a helix, progressively and recursively, where "echoes are inevitable." Ultimately, the collection is concerned with language--as witness and buoy in the white waters of loss, as a tool for violences small and state-crafted, as an asymptote both approaching ideas of "home" and estranged from it, and, beyond it all and still, as a source of wild wonder.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822967088ISBN-10:822967081UPC:9780822967088Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.01 x 6.13 x 0.12 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SCE6SQ236F
Sahar Muradi is author of the chapbooks [ G A T E S ], A Garden Beyond My Hand, and Ask Hafiz: A Migration Story Told through Poetic Divination. She is coeditor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature and EMERGENC(Y): Writing Afghan Lives beyond the Forever War: An Anthology of Writing from Afghanistan and Its Diaspora, and coauthor of A Ritual in X Movements. She is a recipient of the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award and the Patrons' Prize for Emerging Writers from Thornwillow Press, as well as a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Sahar is cofounder of the Afghan American Artists & Writers Association and dearly believes in the bottom of the rice pot.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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