{"product_id":"atrium-poems-9780983581383","title":"Atrium: Poems","description":"In Atrium, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan traces lines of global issues in personal spaces, with fervently original imagery, and a fierce passion and intense intimacy that echoes long after initial reading. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book received the 2013 Arab American Book of the Year Award for Poetry, an astounding achievement for a first collection. In addition, Alyan was recently tapped as a finalist in the Nazim Himet Poetry Competition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlready in her young career, Alyan has etched her mark on other award-winning poets who are universal in their praise: \"Don't miss the dazzling Hala Alyan. Wow. When she says 'the poetry like a spear, ' she isn't kidding.\" --Naomi Shihab Nye; \"Hala Alyan's poems startle us with their beautiful, enigmatic images and capture us with their passionate engagement with the world. A powerful debut.\" --Chitra Divakaruni; \"For all the stunning angularity in this vision, we do not doubt that what we are seeing and sensing here is a surprising, sharp-edged sense of the real, of a world that had been there all along, just waiting for this poet and these poems to reveal. Start to finish, these poems convey a singular vision and represent an important new voice in the international poetry arena.\" --Fred Marchant \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHala Alyan's Atrium is truly a remarkable debut by a poet of stunning virtuosity and range.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlyan, Hala:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist, whose work has been universally praised worldwide. Her poetry collection ATRIUM (2013, Three Rooms Press) was awarded the 2013 Arab American Book Award in Poetry, while her collection, HIJRA, was selected as a winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and published by Southern Illinois University Press. Her debut novel, SALT HOUSES (2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was awarded the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Price for fiction, the 2018 Arab-American Book Award for Fiction, and Best Book of the Year by NPR, \u003ci\u003eNYLON\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a Lannan fellow and currently resides in Brooklyn.","brand":"Three Rooms Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648965251346,"sku":"9780983581383","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25f0ad8a-45c0-43a8-9369-d4b9f0798ecd.jpg?v=1733253755","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/atrium-poems-9780983581383","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}