{"product_id":"a-different-distance-a-renga-paperback","title":"A Different Distance: A Renga - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarilyn Hacker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKarthika Naïr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Indie Next Selection for December 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Recommended Read for Fall 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn March 2020, France declared a full lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Shortly thereafter, poets and friends Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr--living mere miles from each other but separated by circumstance, and spurred by this extraordinary time--began a correspondence in verse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRenga, an ancient Japanese form of collaborative poetry, is comprised of alternating tanka beginning with the themes of tōki and tōza: this season, this session. Here, from the \"plague spring,\" through a year in which seasons are marked by the waxing and waning of the virus, Hacker and Naïr's renga charts the \"differents and sames\" of a now-shared experience. Their poems witness a time of suspension in which some things, somehow, press on relentlessly, in which solidarity persists--even thrives--in the face of a strange new kind of isolation. Between \"ten thousand, yes, minutes of Bones,\" there's cancer and chemotherapy and the aches of an aging body. There is grief for the loss of friends nearby and concern for loved ones in the United States, Lebanon, and India. And there is a deep sense of shared humanity, where we all are \"mere atoms of water, \/ each captained by protons of hydrogen, hurtling earthward.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt turns poignant and playful, the seasons and sessions of \u003ci\u003eA Different Distance\u003c\/i\u003e display the compassionate, collective wisdom of two women witnessing a singular moment in history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarilyn Hacker\u003c\/b\u003e is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eA Different Distance\u003c\/i\u003e. She is an editor, translator, and author of sixteen collections of poetry. Her first book, \u003ci\u003ePresentation Piece\u003c\/i\u003e, received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1974. Hacker is a winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the National Poetry Series Robert Fagels Translation Prize, and the PEN\/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She has been an editor for the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and professor of English at the City College of New York. She lives in Paris, France. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eKarthika Naïr\u003c\/b\u003e is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eA Different Distance\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a dance producer and curator, and author of four books, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eUntil the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata\u003c\/i\u003e, a retelling of the ancient epic in multiple poetic forms. Naïr is also the principal scriptwriter for the dance production DESH, choreographed and performed by Akram Khan. Naïr's poetry has been published in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e (UK), the \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry International\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eForward Book of Poetry 2017\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Paris, France.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.35 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701322256447,"sku":"9781571315519","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/67b393c30b06f64d1ba78ad61d3c4508.webp?v=1765020199","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-different-distance-a-renga-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}