{"product_id":"burning-roses-in-my-garden-9780143449560","title":"Burning Roses in My Garden","description":"\u003ci\u003eHave I not, having kept a man for years, learnt that it's\/ like raising a snake?\/ So many animals on this earth, why keep a man of all things?'\u003c\/i\u003e writes one of the world's most celebrated writers, Taslima Nasrin, in her first-ever comprehensive collection of poetry translated from the original Bangla into English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poems get to the heart of being \u003ci\u003ethe other in exile\u003c\/i\u003e, justifying one's place in a terrifying world. They praise the comfort and critique the cruelty of a loved one. In these are loneliness, sorrow, and at times, exaltation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Relying almost entirely upon the free verse form, these poems carry a diction which is at once both gentle and fierce, revealing the experiences of one woman while defining the existence of so many generations of women throughout time, and around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Living in exile, \u003cb\u003eTaslima Nasrin\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and a secular humanist who has been subjected to forced banishment and multiple fatwas. Her writings have been deemed controversial time and again because of their unflinching preoccupation with gender, community and identity. Her widely celebrated books include \u003ci\u003eLajja\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Split: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Girlhood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eExile\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrench Lover \u003c\/i\u003eand others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJesse Waters\u003c\/b\u003e is director, Bowers Writers House, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. His poetry as well as fiction and non-fiction work have been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and have appeared nationally and internationally in such journals as \u003ci\u003e88\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Adirondack Review, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoal Hill Review, The Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Iowa Review, River Styx, Slide, Story Quarterly, Southeast Review, Sycamore Review\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eHuman Resources\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eSo Let Me Get This Straight.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"India Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869383201042,"sku":"9780143449560","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8ac5ce52-8cda-4c18-b5a8-77a5214931b2.jpg?v=1737755455","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/burning-roses-in-my-garden-9780143449560","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}