{"product_id":"lean-against-this-late-hour-paperback","title":"Lean Against This Late Hour - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGarous Abdolmalekian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIdra Novey\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAhmad Nadalizadeh\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA vivid, \"mesmerizing\" (\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate focus. Time is a thread come unspooled: pain arrives before the wound, and the dead wait for sunrise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbdolmalekian resists definitive separations between cause and effect, life and death, or heaven and hell, and challenges our sense of what is fixed and what is unsettled and permeable. Though the speakers in these poems are witnesses to the deforming effects of grief and memory, they remain alive to curiosity, to the pleasure of companionship, and to other ways of being and seeing. \u003ci\u003eLean Against This Late Hour\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the images we conjure in the face of abandonment and ruin, and finds them by turns frightening, bewildering, ethereal, and defiant. \"This time,\" a disembodied voice commands, \"send us a prophet who only listens.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarous Abdolmalekian\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1980, days after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, and lives in Tehran. He is the author of five poetry books and the recipient of the Karnameh Poetry Book of the Year Award and the Iranian Youth Poetry Book Prize. His poems have been translated into Arabic, French, German, Kurdish, and Spanish. Abdolmalekian is presently the editor of the poetry section at Chesmeh Publications in Tehran and the executive editor of publications at the Youth Poetry Office in Iran. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAhmad Nadalizadeh\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator from the Persian and PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of Oregon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIdra Novey\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, poet, and translator. She is the award-winning author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThose Who Knew \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWays to Disappear\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been translated into ten languages and she's translated numerous authors from Spanish and Portuguese, most recently Clarice Lispector. For her poetry and translation she has received awards from the PEN Translation Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760030417184,"sku":"9780143134930","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9a2fbcbae5d10afab5fcc44069bf20ea.webp?v=1780169453","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lean-against-this-late-hour-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}