{"product_id":"high-desert-paperback","title":"High Desert - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndré Naffis-Sahely\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh Desert \u003c\/i\u003eis an ode to the American Southwest, exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wildfire epidemic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaffis-Sahely's reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the region's hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the current pandemic. The poems in \u003ci\u003eHigh Desert\u003c\/i\u003e also revel in their rootlessness, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the US, traveling from Venice and Florence to Chittagong and St Petersburg, tackling our turbulent times and the depths of its problems in searing, extraordinary poems of witness and vision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Naffis-Sahely's second collection, following his debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin, 2017), a gathering of portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: travelers, laborers, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. It includes poems from his recent pamphlet \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e (Rough Trade Books, 2019). All his collections present poetry as reportage, as much an act of memory as of sinuous, clear-eyed vision. \u003ci\u003eHigh Desert\u003c\/i\u003e was named as one of the '20 best poetry books of 2022' in \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndré Naffis-Sahely\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, editor and translator whose many publications include two collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin Books, 2017) and \u003ci\u003eHigh Desert\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), and a pamphlet, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of Nowhere \u003c\/i\u003e(Rough Trade Books, 2019). He edited \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and is editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a renowned translator, and several of his titles have been selected as Books of the Year by NPR, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692293394495,"sku":"9781780376202","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1cfc11f49113b86cc3834d184f9c8eeb.webp?v=1764994961","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/high-desert-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}