{"product_id":"places-you-leave-9781910345825","title":"Places You Leave","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePlaces you Leave\u003c\/i\u003e is relentlessly energetic and politically insistent without ever being pedantic, these are knife-sharp glimpses of the world. The specificity of the details - spindling out over and again - never releases us. We're yanked along image by image, observation by observation. And, suddenly, it occurs that we're the angel going backwards with the world collapsing in our wake.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Forrest Gander\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning inside the largest refugee camp in the world (Cox's Bazar) and ending up with Lorca in Granada, Places You Leave explores questions of travel, place \/ displacement, self \/ otherness, race, feminism, national and global politics. Through poems, poetic sequences and the lyric essay, Byrne considers a 'poethics' of place and speaks back to the complex nature of human experience. In his most hybrid work to date, including original collages from seven different countries, Byrne advocates for activist but peaceful ways in which language might challenge existing social structures and the dynamics of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Byrne is a poet, editor and translator, renowned for his commitment to international poetries and poetics. \u003ci\u003ePlaces You Leave\u003c\/i\u003e is his fourth collection from Arc, his previous collections being \u003ci\u003eBlood \/ Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eWhite Coins\u003c\/i\u003e 2015) and \u003ci\u003eThe Caprices \u003c\/i\u003e(2019). Also for Arc he has co-edited the anthologies \u003ci\u003eBones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) with ko ko thett, \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Drift \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) with Robert Sheppard (co-published with Edge Hill University Press) and \u003ci\u003eI Am a Rohingy\u003c\/i\u003ea \u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e2019), with Shehza Doja. He is Arc's International Editor for Arc and is currently a Reader in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"ARC Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50388724252946,"sku":"9781910345825","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f9a276d8-9162-400b-80b2-b3a679ef98f7.jpg?v=1728907223","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/places-you-leave-9781910345825","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}