OCTOBERS (eBook)

Poems

Sahar Muradi (Autor)

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2023
121 Seiten
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-9014-7 (ISBN)

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Longlist Finalist, 2023 Julie Suk Award

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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Pitt Poetry Series
• Verlagsort: PIttsburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Afghanistan poetry • Contemporary poetry • Donald Hall Prize for Poetry • Pitt Poetry Series • Poetry • poetry about grief • poetry of witness • winner of the Donald Hall Prize
• ISBN-10: 0-8229-9014-8 / 0822990148
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-9014-7 / 9780822990147