{"product_id":"come-from-9781960145475","title":"come from","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003ejanan alexandra’s debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eCOME FROM\u003c\/i\u003e,\nweaves from English to Arabic, exploring the joint projects of longing and\nbelonging. Part love song for the speaker’s mother and part grief song for\nongoing postcolonial loss, this book reaches for, around, underneath, and\nthrough language—feeling for its limits and possibilities. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing\non both narrative and lyric impulses, alexandra invites readers into a world\nbristling with family, memory, home, and inheritance—all in the wake of\ndislocation and fracture. In one section of the book, we follow the speaker\n“back home” after years of separation; later, we encounter a series of parables\nin the form of an Arabic abecedarian, through which the speaker recovers parts\nof her mother tongue—probing the gifts and wounds of language, invoking\npersonal and communal histories marked with the long-durée of empire. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book searches for\nwhat might be possible if we dislodge our practices of belonging from the myth\nof wholeness, divest from nation and state, and instead turn deeply toward each\nother. Here is a collection that pulses with warmth and vitality, heralding the\narrival of a fresh and vibrant voice on the poetry scene. Clear and concise,\naccessible yet profound, \u003ci\u003eCOME FROM\u003c\/i\u003e investigates\nwhat is deeply interior while reaching toward the world with tenderness and\ngenerous attention. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51021033275735,"sku":"9781960145475","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781960145475.jpg?v=1750785013","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/come-from-9781960145475","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}