{"product_id":"summonings-9781625570413","title":"Summonings","description":"Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, Raena Shirali's \u003ci\u003esummonings\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the ongoing practice of witch (\" daayan\" ) hunting in India. Here, poems interrogate the political implications \u0026amp; shortcomings of writing Subaltern personae while acknowledging the author's Westernized positionality. Continuing to explore multi-national and intersectional concerns around identity raised in her debut collection, Shirali asks how first- \u0026amp; second-generation immigrants reconcile the self with the lineages that shape it, wondering aloud about those lineages' relationships to misogyny \u0026amp; violence. These precarious poems explore how antiquated \u0026amp; existing norms surrounding female mysticism in India \u0026amp; America inform each culture's treatment of women. As Jericho Brown wrote of Shirali's poetics in \u003ci\u003eGILT\u003c\/i\u003e, her \" comment on culture, on identity, on justice is her comment on poetry.\" summonings is comment on power \u0026amp; patriarchy, on authorial privilege \u0026amp; the shifting role of witness, \u0026amp;, ultimately, on an ethical poetics, grounded in the inevitable failure to embody the Other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaena Shirali is the author of two collections of poetry. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eGILT\u003c\/i\u003e, was released by YesYes Books in 2017 and won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Published by Black Lawrence Press in October 2022, her second book, \u003ci\u003esummonings\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2021 Hudson Prize and was shortlisted for the 2022 Julie Suk Award. She holds an MFA in Poetry from The Ohio State University and is an Associate Professor of English at Holy Family University in Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680289624338,"sku":"9781625570413","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e9385fdf-b867-40d6-bffc-3ccc82a3ea94.jpg?v=1737242176","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/summonings-9781625570413","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}