{"product_id":"onement-won-9798891060357","title":"Onement Won","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing her acclaimed \u003cem\u003eGrief Sequence\u003c\/em\u003e, Prageeta Sharma's newest collection, \u003cem\u003eOnement Won\u003c\/em\u003e, is at once a contemplation and a sharp critique.\u003c\/b\u003e Having been twice widowed to cancer, Sharma questions the various relationships--familial, social, romantic, religious--that have shaped her identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by Barnett Newman's Onement series as well as many texts including the \u003cem\u003eUpanishads\u003c\/em\u003e, Th\u003cem\u003ee Bhagavad Gita\u003c\/em\u003e, Goethe's \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e, and Audre Lorde's \u003cem\u003eThe Cancer Journals\u003c\/em\u003e, these poems explore the concept of oneness in Hinduism, Abstract Expressionism, and selfhood in an attempt at \"onement with lyric certainty,\" a way through ideas of prosody to a clearer sense of what is needed in freedom, suffering, and art-making. The result is a stunning work that invokes ancient wisdom into an understanding of self-care that is fiercely anticolonial and anticapitalist, while holding space for suffering as a site of transformation for us individually and collectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798891060357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104","brand":"Prageeta Sharma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51299157016757,"sku":"9798891060357","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_25236d56-6178-4195-adab-98af2d13cb2b.jpg?v=1751985538","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/onement-won-9798891060357","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}