{"product_id":"onement-won-9798891060357","title":"Onement Won","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing her acclaimed \u003cem\u003eGrief Sequence\u003c\/em\u003e, Prageeta Sharma's newest collection, \u003cem\u003eOnement Won\u003c\/em\u003e, is at once a contemplation and a sharp critique.\u003c\/b\u003e Having been twice widowed to cancer, Sharma questions the various relationships--familial, social, romantic, religious--that have shaped her identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by Barnett Newman's Onement series as well as many texts including the \u003cem\u003eUpanishads\u003c\/em\u003e, Th\u003cem\u003ee Bhagavad Gita\u003c\/em\u003e, Goethe's \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e, and Audre Lorde's \u003cem\u003eThe Cancer Journals\u003c\/em\u003e, these poems explore the concept of oneness in Hinduism, Abstract Expressionism, and selfhood in an attempt at \"onement with lyric certainty,\" a way through ideas of prosody to a clearer sense of what is needed in freedom, suffering, and art-making. The result is a stunning work that invokes ancient wisdom into an understanding of self-care that is fiercely anticolonial and anticapitalist, while holding space for suffering as a site of transformation for us individually and collectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrageeta Sharma\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003cem\u003eGrief Sequence\u003c\/em\u003e (Wave Books 2019), \u003cem\u003eUndergloom\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInfamous Landscapes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Opening Question\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and \u003cem\u003eBliss to Fill\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College in Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589735088402,"sku":"9798891060357","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c98af5b8-e416-47c1-a95f-0cfe29c52752.jpg?v=1756803793","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/onement-won-9798891060357","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}