{"product_id":"howe-sarah-babelpb","title":"[04\/13\/27] Howe, Sarah: Babel's Drift","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopper Canyon Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 13, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is rare to witness a decade of poetic genius with the turn of a page. In \u003cem\u003eBabel's Drift \u003c\/em\u003eby T.S. Eliot Award winner Sarah Howe, we can.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOscillating between Hong Kong and Great Britain, between a mother's uncertain past and a daughter's questioning present, \u003cem\u003eBabel's Drift \u003c\/em\u003eintroduces T.S. Eliot Award winner Sarah Howe to an American audience. For the first time, Howe's two powerhouse collections appear in a single volume to recount an immigrant daughter's search for belonging. In \u003cem\u003eLoop of Jade, \u003c\/em\u003eHowe investigates her family's origin story--a mother abandoned at birth in communist China--through chinoiserie, Chinese fables, and Greek myth. Ten years later in \u003cem\u003eForetokens, \u003c\/em\u003eHowe, now a mother herself, uses erasure, ekphrasis, and the patterning of DNA's double helix to ponder: Is what we've been given all that we have to give? Profound and empathic, \u003cem\u003eBabel's Drift \u003c\/em\u003eproves that everything must mutate to survive its own genealogy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45720663621655,"sku":"9781556597565","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/Draw_book_025b3470-20b3-4e0d-9520-c06d4e03370e.png?v=1791498671","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/howe-sarah-babelpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}