{"product_id":"postcards-from-the-underworld-poems-paperback","title":"Postcards from the Underworld: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSinan Antoon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloved's home. In \u003ci\u003ePostcards from the Underworld, \u003c\/i\u003e Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two wars--the Iran-Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991--and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoon's poems confront violence and force us not to look away as he traces death's haunting presence in the world. Nature offers consolation, and flowers and butterflies are the poet's interlocutors, but they too cannot escape ruin. Composed in Arabic and translated into English by the poet himself, \u003ci\u003ePostcards from the Underworld\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing meditation on the destruction of humans, habitats, and homes.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSinan Antoon\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, novelist, scholar, and translator based in New York. He holds degrees from Baghdad, Georgetown, and Harvard where he earned his doctorate in Arabic literature, and is currently an associate professor of Arabic Literature at New York University. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish's last prose book, \u003ci\u003eIn the Presence of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2012 American Literary Translators' Award. His most recent work is the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Collateral Damage\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2016 and published in English translation in 2019. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 9.26 x 6.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765097890080,"sku":"9781803092508","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cacde9b9c37e630b025011ef5bd15e47.webp?v=1780262052","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/postcards-from-the-underworld-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}