{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-anger-9781643173672","title":"A Short History of Anger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the New Measure Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA multilayered book and performance, \u003cem\u003eA Short History of Anger \u003c\/em\u003espeaks through fragments, fractures, song, and the voices of a Greek Chorus. This lament confronts the massacre of Greek citizens in the 1922 Destruction of Smyrna, and the buried traces of this tragedy as they haunt the poet's family history. Governed by its musical, ritualistic construction, it excavates a legacy of genocide and displacement that resonates through successive generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Joy Manesiotis is a brilliant poet, one who understands, that lyric, as Joseph Brodsky once insisted, is a soul's release into language. So, watch how the line-breaks, sentences, precise orchestrations and wonders of syntax work in her poems, how they move us to a different register of human emotions, how they open doors we did not know exist. Manesiotis is wonder poet, one whose work I admire deeply.\" -Ilya Kaminsky, author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof \u003cem\u003eDancing In Odessa \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Deaf Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When a great catastrophe, the genocide of the Greeks of Smyrna, is immured in silence, does collective horror harbor in the genes-the blood line a long fuse smoldering with hidden fire, 'Smyrna burning and burning....' How to speak of such things? But 'who will sing the \u003cem\u003emoirolaia\u003c\/em\u003e to help the souls cross over?' In answer, voices--ancestral, choral, personal-rise from the ashes in this eloquent \u003cem\u003emoirolaia\u003c\/em\u003e of Joy Manesiotis: recovered history, lamentation, remembrance, release.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eEleanor Wilner\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBefore Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When, in Anna Akhmatova's famous poem, she was asked 'Can you describe this?' about an atrocity she lived through, she replied, 'Yes, I can.' In \u003cem\u003eA Short History of Anger\u003c\/em\u003e, Joy Manesiotis lifts the same burden of responsibility to her own shoulders, and the beautiful, heartbreaking poem she made here could have been written a thousand years ago, or yesterday. And the terrible thing is, when I look up from this book, our landscape is the same as inside it: on fire. When no remedy is coming, poets at least make it possible to sit in the dirt and weep. Sit here with me. I would count it a privilege to hold your hand and keen these poems together.\" -\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Donnelly\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eLittle-Known Operas, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Charge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOY MANESIOTIS\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThey Sing to Her Bones\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize. Recently, she has staged \u003cem\u003eA Short History of Anger: A Hybrid Work of Poetry \u0026amp; Theatre\u003c\/em\u003e-comprised of a Speaker and Greek Chorus-at international festivals and universities in the US and Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFree Verse Editions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeries Editor: Jon Thompson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Parlor Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487733256466,"sku":"9781643173672","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_488e54d0-9425-46d9-a03c-782ba1d75236.jpg?v=1730452089","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-short-history-of-anger-9781643173672","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}