{"product_id":"08-31-22-fatemi-farnaz-sister-tongue","title":"Fatemi, Farnaz: Sister Tongue","description":"\u003cp\u003eForeward by Tracy K. Smith (Kent State University Press, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: August 31, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: “In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSister Tongue,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFatemi shines gorgeous light on the liminal space between languages, bearing witness to the joy and longing that accompany every act of translation.”—Tracy K. Smith\u003cstrong\u003e,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom the Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSister Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplore negative spaces—the distance between twin sisters, between lovers, between Farsi and English, between the poet’s upbringing in California and her family in Iran. This space between vibrates with loss and longing, arcing with tension. Farnaz Fatemi’s poetry delves into the intricacies of the relational space between people, the depth of ancestral roots, and the visceral memories that shimmer beyond the reach of words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLanguage is one of the origins of the poet’s displacement and the evidence of her non-belonging—in both Farsi- and English-speaking communities. The long lyric essay that makes up the spine of this book plumbs years of wordlessness and a journey of reconciliation, as Fatemi asks how her tongue might be a passport to the otherwise inaccessible territories within a self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSister Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emetabolize longing while holding space for the poet’s multiple inheritances, offering a vision of a porosity of self. Through the work of this reckoning, Fatemi reveals how connections between people and places might be forged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40237632192535,"sku":"9781606354445","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/81CZbiuhQoL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65.webp?v=1659828646","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/08-31-22-fatemi-farnaz-sister-tongue","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}