{"product_id":"the-seventh-town-of-ghosts-poems-paperback","title":"The Seventh Town of Ghosts: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFaith Arkorful\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBC Poetry Prize finalist and National Magazine Award honoree Faith Arkorful's breathtaking, surpassingly thoughtful debut collection of poems.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHauntings form the canopy of \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Town of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e. These titular towns, centred in yesterdays, tomorrows, and the ongoing, lead to a special kind of singing: songs to the reader who wrestles with existence, the unsure peace within family, and the often-tense interdependence of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, discernment is ever-present, guided by Faith Arkorful's insights on not only the ravages of the state and the police upon the Black family and life at large, but also on a kaleidoscope of connections--sisterhood, daughterhood, kinship, solitude, death, romance--and how tenderness, chosen and repeated, can shield against life's blows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese towns also enchant, shape-lifting through humour, irony, and the small refractions of language where Arkorful guides us through the fault lines and the undertow, in the form of fruit, island volcanoes, Formula 1, and the expansive hum of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis poet-as-sojourner bears careful, caring witness, her attention reserved not only for her living and her dead but hyphenated two-fold by the fragile things and the lasting things. These poems remind us of what contours our mysterious and fleeting presence on Earth.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaith Arkorful's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGUTS Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeach Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePRISM International\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHobart Pulp\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCanthius Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places. In 2022 she was a semi-finalist in the 92NY's Discovery Poetry Contest. She received an honourable mention at the 2020 National Magazine Awards and in 2019 was shortlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Faith was born in Toronto, where she still resides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764053410080,"sku":"9780771004452","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a00aaeb7527e82f44cd442d6a272d8da.webp?v=1780243435","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-seventh-town-of-ghosts-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}