{"product_id":"four-cities-9781625579393","title":"Four Cities","description":"\" Following her mesmerizing debut collection \u003ci\u003eAtrium\u003c\/i\u003e, Hala Alyan offers a sustaining and luminous meditation on love and war in \u003ci\u003eFour Cities\u003c\/i\u003e. Baghdad, New York, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Detroit and Paris are just names on maps, 'for when maps fold and countries vanish... it is just you and the dust you carry on your skin.' These gritty, volatile communities dissolve into dreamscapes, redolent with lemons, dazzled with snow, awake to conversation and kisses. The sky is always open for possibilities: fireworks, moonlight, the call to prayer, dandelions parachuting through the air. What a splendid majestic if troubled world we find ourselves in love in.\" \u003cbr\u003e -- D.A. Powell, author of \u003ci\u003eChronic and Cocktails\u003c\/i\u003e\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 poet and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in several journals, including \u003cem\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThird Coast\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. Her first full- length poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eATRIUM\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Three Rooms Press in New York City, and was awarded the 2013 Arab American Book Award in Poetry. She resides in Manhattan.","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50669795574034,"sku":"9781625579393","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cd7033c0-137b-4d72-9003-aef072ac514d.jpg?v=1733766589","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/four-cities-9781625579393","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}