{"product_id":"exiles-of-eden-9781566895446","title":"Exiles of Eden","description":"\u003ci\u003eExiles of Eden\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exploring displacement and alienation from its mythological origins to the present. In this formally experimental collection steeped in Somali narrative tradition, Osman gives voice to the experiences and traumas of displaced people over multiple generations. The characters in these poems encounter exile's strangeness while processing the profoundly isolating experience of knowing that that once you are sent out of Eden, you can't go back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomali-born poet and essayist Ladan Osman is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Nebraska Press, 2015), winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize, and the chapbook \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Heaven, \u003c\/i\u003e which appeared in the box-set \u003ci\u003eSeven New Generation African Poets\u003c\/i\u003e (Slapering Hol Press, 2014). Her next collection, \u003ci\u003eExiles of Eden, \u003c\/i\u003e a work of poetry, photos, and experimental text, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650035945746,"sku":"9781566895446","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_956d18ac-2813-4902-b62b-61d45f5db1b9.jpg?v=1733280951","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/exiles-of-eden-9781566895446","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}