{"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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822967088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72","brand":"Muradi Sahar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084119834805,"sku":"9780822967088","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f433d366-d11e-42f0-acc2-e0060d989821.jpg?v=1692110839","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/octobers-9780822967088","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}