{"product_id":"calligraphies-poems-paperback","title":"Calligraphies: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarilyn Hacker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving from Paris to Beirut and back, \u003cem\u003eCalligraphies\u003c\/em\u003e is a tribute to exiles and refugees, the known and unknown, dead and living, from the American poet Marie Ponsot to the Syrian pasionaria Fadwa Suleiman. Award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker finds resistance, wit, potential, and gleaming connection in everyday moments--a lunch of \"standing near the fridge with \/ labneh, two verbs, and a spoon\"--as a counterweight to the precarity of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith signature passion and agility, Hacker draws from French, Arabic, and English to probe the role of language in identity and revolution. Amid conversations in smoky cafes, personal mourning, and political turmoil, she traces the lines between exiles and expats, immigrants and refugees. A series of \"Montpeyroux Sonnets\" bookends the volume, cataloguing months in 2021 and 2022 in which the poet observes a village \"in pandemic mode\" and reflects on her own aging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a variety of tones and formal registers, from vivid crowns of sonnets to insistent ghazals to elegiac pantoums and riffs on the renga, \u003cem\u003eCalligraphies\u003c\/em\u003e explores a world opened up by language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 08, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725210390591,"sku":"9781324086451","price":22.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3cedca98b13e41b19796fb2929593309.webp?v=1765105626","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/calligraphies-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}