{"product_id":"octobers-9780822967088","title":"Octobers","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOctobers \u003c\/i\u003etraces 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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-5295713\"\u003eSahar Muradi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.13w x 0.12d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822967088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822967081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44483520364781,"sku":"9780822967088","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_6e5c8a79-6d26-40a0-9e29-3563c2cbac50.jpg?v=1700775346","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/octobers-9780822967088","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}