{"product_id":"your-blue-and-the-quiet-lament-poems-hardcover","title":"Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLubna Safi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRachel Mennies\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Blue and the Quiet Lament\u003c\/i\u003e records the textures of grief after a cousin's murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative of arrest, imprisonment, and torture in Syria and interweave the difficulties a family experiences in the diaspora. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShifting between the death of poet Federico García Lorca and that of her cousin, Lubna's poetry contends with personal loss by distancing the meaning of one death through the intermediary of another. Yet the distortion of distance is already there--in the language, in the geographic space, in time, in the grief itself--tinged with blue. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she recalls childhood memories and imagines conversations with her dead cousin, Lubna's poetry whispers, calls out, sings, laments, pens letters, photographs, sketches, paints, and prays in an attempt to exhaust grief.\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 0.63 x 9.06 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 02, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759456223520,"sku":"9781682831397","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f50774800203c7b58b9013a9ba2c6dfe.webp?v=1780153247","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/your-blue-and-the-quiet-lament-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}