{"product_id":"cairo-the-undelivered-letters-the-undelivered-letters-the-undelivered-letters-the-undelivered-letters-9786338295042","title":"CAIRO the undelivered letters: the undelivered letters: the undelivered letters: the undelivered letters","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn CAIRO: the undelivered letters, the city speaks-but only through those the world forgets. Framed as a haunting series of letters to an absent editor at Al-Ahram Newspaper's Friday Mail, this extraordinary poetry collection refracts the lives of Cairo's demimonde through a surreal, shimmering lens. From flooded basements to rooftop vigils, from broken radios to whispered revolutions, each plea is a cracked mirror reflecting a city unraveling and remaking itself in silence. In the void where replies should be, CAIRO: the undelivered letters dares to imagine that even unread voices echo-tender, urgent, and impossible to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I could not help but think of Jack Spicer's\u003cem\u003e After Lorca\u003c\/em\u003e, another brilliant book of epistolary poems while reading \u003cem\u003eCAIRO: the undelivered letters\u003c\/em\u003e; and what Spicer says of perfect poetry, that it 'has infinitely small vocabulary.'\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, \u003cem\u003eA Treatise on Stars\u003c\/em\u003e (New Directions, 2020), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Diwan Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9786338295042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.34d","brand":"Mai Serhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45483888378037,"sku":"9786338295042","price":11.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_28c5d603-35a1-45cc-91a5-5aeb5eee5b6d.jpg?v=1749565698","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cairo-the-undelivered-letters-the-undelivered-letters-the-undelivered-letters-the-undelivered-letters-9786338295042","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}