{"product_id":"octobers-poems-9780822967088","title":"Octobers: Poems","description":"\u003ci\u003eOCTOBERS\u003c\/i\u003e traces the four great tumults of the author's life, all of which originated in that jagged month of different years: The US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of her daughter. The poems chart heartbreak along a helix, progressively and recursively, where \"echoes are inevitable.\" Ultimately, the collection is concerned with language--as witness and buoy in the white waters of loss, as a tool for violences small and state-crafted, as an asymptote both approaching ideas of \"home\" and estranged from it, and, beyond it all and still, as a source of wild wonder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSahar Muradi\u003c\/b\u003e is author of the chapbooks\u003ci\u003e [ G A T E S ]\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Garden Beyond My Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAsk Hafiz: A Migration Story Told through Poetic Divination\u003c\/i\u003e. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eOne Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEMERGENC(Y): Writing Afghan Lives beyond the Forever War: An Anthology of Writing from Afghanistan and Its Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eA Ritual in X Movements\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a recipient of the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award and the Patrons' Prize for Emerging Writers from Thornwillow Press, as well as a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Sahar is cofounder of the Afghan American Artists \u0026amp; Writers Association and dearly believes in the bottom of the rice pot.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626413396242,"sku":"9780822967088","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fa0a3db6-6582-4e29-bad7-3642fc42e7af.jpg?v=1732658457","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/octobers-poems-9780822967088","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}