{"product_id":"book-of-kin-9781637680964","title":"Book of Kin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook of Kin\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2023 Autumn House Poetry Prize, draws on the poet's Iranian heritage to process life-altering loss and grief.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarius Atefat-Peckham's debut poetry collection follows a boy's coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident that took the lives of both his mother and brother. Through these poems, Atefat-Peckham constructs a language for grief that is porous and revelatory, spoken assuredly across the imagination, bridging time and space, and creating a reciprocal haunting between the living and the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the Persian epic \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e, the Sufi mystic poetry of Rumi, and his mother's poetry, these poems form a path of connection between the author and his Iranian heritage. Book of Kin interrogates what it means to exist between cultures, to be a survivor of tragedy, to practice love and joy toward one's beloveds, and to hope for greater connection through poems that wade through time and memory \"like so many fish spreading swimming in the green-blue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarius Atefat-Peckham \u003c\/b\u003egrew up in Huntington, West Virginia, attended Interlochen Arts Academy, and received his BA in English and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoem-a-Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRattle\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He's been included in many anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eMy Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Texas Press). In 2018, the Library of Congress selected him as a National Student Poet. Atefat-Peckham is also the author of the chapbook, \u003ci\u003eHow Many Love Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Seven Kitchens Press), and editor of his mother's, Susan Atefat-Peckham's, posthumous collection \u003ci\u003eDeep Are These Distances Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e (CavanKerry Press). He's currently a Poetry Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Autumn House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50888521842962,"sku":"9781637680964","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e391ac8e-1a4e-472d-9b0e-10bceda2bf0f.jpg?v=1738156180","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/book-of-kin-9781637680964","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}