{"product_id":"terazawa-sophia-oracular-mpb","title":"Terazawa, Sophia: Oracular Maladies","description":"\u003cp\u003eNoemi Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 15, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: A book of curses, Oracular Maladies summons an ecstatic performance of divas arriving in glamorous form. The backdrop: Vietnamese tonality, displacement, and reclamation. Cicadas arrive onstage. Cows arrive onstage. An odyssey of someone walking on her knees across an entire country makes a video onstage. This is Terazawa's third poetry collection, a wonder of light upon diacritic marks, layers of breathless music uneasy with its hybrid nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemplating fraught intersections between a mother's language of Vietnamese and craft considerations of Japanese-English meter, \u003ci\u003eOracular Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e forms a series of six spoken \"scores\" mirroring the tonal arc of a musical variety show familiar to the Vietnamese diaspora, \"Paris by Night.\" These poems are like a VHS box set dusted off for the first time after decades. Projective verse and prayers flash across the page. The melodrama receives respect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The best poets not only speak, they look and they listen. I am here for all of it from Sophia Terazawa: 'If you must know our language, \/ there's a field some call a garden.' Everything is at play in this collection, an inventiveness with form and language that is both redemptive and devastating (smoke goes everywhere beauty destroys') \u003ci\u003eOracular Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e is a translation of a translation, a performance, and a time machine. And isn't that really, what grief, exile, family, tradition, and culture is?\" — Keith S. Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44609835925527,"sku":"9781955992701","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9781955992701ita_720x_0bdc3ac2-b452-4d1e-9feb-3a8a7bc4e3c9.jpg?v=1771620580","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/terazawa-sophia-oracular-mpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}