{"product_id":"faizullah-tarfia-registers-pb","title":"Faizullah, Tarfia: Registers of Illuminated Villages","description":"\u003cp\u003eGraywolf, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 06, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullah's highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, Seam. 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","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679368097815,"sku":"9781555978006","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9781555978006.jpg?v=1698965319","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/faizullah-tarfia-registers-pb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}