{"product_id":"cemetery-ink-poems-9780822966579","title":"Cemetery Ink: Poems","description":"In poems of compassion and social justice, Mihaela Moscaliuc probes borders and memory to work through, and further complicate, understandings of belonging--from places (including her native Romania) and histories, to ways of knowing, loving, and grieving. If the wounded populate these poems, so too do goats, black swans, centipedes, dismembered dolls, and wandering wombs. The ekphrastic sequence on Rousseau's \u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Gypsy\u003c\/i\u003e honors stories of Roma people while addressing issues of (mis)representation and epistemic violence. As in previous collections, cemeteries become sites of power, holding the living accountable. \u003cb\u003eThe homeless women of Iaşi\u003c\/b\u003e So many shouting at no one, disputing accusations, nodding maniacally, flogging trees with headscarves-- their pantomimes re-populate sidewalks with ousted ghosts. They pose no threat but we detour cautiously, afraid their siren voices might awaken the penal colony in our ribcage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMihaela Moscaliuc\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eImmigrant Model\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFather Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e and the translator of Liliana Ursu's \u003ci\u003eClay and Star \u003c\/i\u003eand Carmelia Leonte's \u003ci\u003eThe Hiss of the Viper\u003c\/i\u003e. Her awards include two Glenna Luschei Awards, residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, and Le Chateau de Lavigny, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania. She is associate professor of English at Monmouth University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50670143537426,"sku":"9780822966579","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_68174842-1915-4d35-8f49-f94534464c02.jpg?v=1733772803","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cemetery-ink-poems-9780822966579","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}