{"product_id":"of-gods-strangers-9781935536178","title":"Of Gods \u0026 Strangers","description":"A meditation on history and the imagination that bears witness to acts of genocide and to natural disasters in Ethiopia, Haiti, and Sri Lanka, Of Gods \u0026amp; Strangers interweaves lyrical, arresting accounts of our contemporary world with stories of \"Empress Dowager\" Tzu Hsi, last empress of China (1861-1908). An urgent reminder that poetry can offer us a social consciousness--\"in my locked mouth an urge\"--Of Gods \u0026amp; Strangers deftly traces the human dimensions of the \"great modern machine,\" looking to recover the present and its people through the past's \"faulty memory.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor of Half-Lit Houses, TINA CHANG teaches at Sarah Lawrence and serves as Brooklyn Poet Laureate.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364261957906,"sku":"9781935536178","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d520784f-bd4e-4f48-987b-9db152d8a23c.jpg?v=1728430079","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/of-gods-strangers-9781935536178","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}