{"product_id":"registers-of-illuminated-villages-poems-9781555978006","title":"Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Tarfia Faizullah is a poet of brave and unflinching vision.\" --Natasha Trethewey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSomebody is always singing. Songs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewere not allowed. Mother said, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance and the bells will sing with you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI slithered. Glass beneath my feet. I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003elocked the door. I did not\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003edie. I shaved my head. Until the horns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI knew were there were visible.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUntil the doorknob went silent. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--from \"100 Bells\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRegisters of Illuminated Villages\u003c\/i\u003e is Tarfia Faizullah's highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, \u003ci\u003eSeam\u003c\/i\u003e. Faizullah's new work extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence, war, and loss into poems of many forms and voices--elegies, outcries, self-portraits, and larger-scale confrontations with discrimination, family, and memory. One poem steps down the page like a Slinky; another poem responds to makeup homework completed in the summer of a childhood accident; other poems punctuate the collection with dark meditations on dissociation, discipline, defiance, and destiny; and the near-title poem, \"Register of Eliminated Villages,\" suggests illuminated texts, one a Qur'an in which the speaker's name might be found, and the other a register of 397 villages destroyed in northern Iraq. Faizullah is an essential new poet whose work only grows more urgent, beautiful, and--even in its unsparing brutality--full of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555978006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2018 pg. 102\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tarfia Faizullah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659652952220,"sku":"9781555978006","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_82187184-51ec-4eff-9662-54e88ef316c6.jpg?v=1603895205","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/registers-of-illuminated-villages-poems-9781555978006","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}