{"product_id":"about-tracy-fuad-9780822966685","title":"About: Blank: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eGold Winner, 2022 Nautilus Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eabout: blank\u003c\/i\u003e, Tracy Fuad builds a poetics of contemporary dissociation. Funny, plaintive, and cutting, this formally inventive debut probes alienation in place and in language through the author's consideration of her own relationship to Iraqi Kurdistan. \u003ci\u003eabout: blank\u003c\/i\u003e--the title of which is the universal URL for a blank web page--complicates questions of longing and belonging. Interrogating the language of internet chatrooms, Yelp reviews, and the Kurdish dictionary, the poems here leap surprisingly between subjects to find new meaning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written before and during the years the author spent living in Iraqi Kurdistan, the collection documents the alienation of being inside, outside, and between language(s) and the always-already terror of grammar. At once haunted and humorous, \u003ci\u003eabout: blank\u003c\/i\u003e inhabits and exhibits the disorientation and fragmentation that is endemic to the internet era, and mourns the loss of a more embodied existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tracy Fuad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822966689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822966685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2021 pg. 8","brand":"Tracy Fuad","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051288621311,"sku":"9780822966685","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c44a526-7bc8-44f2-9e72-c067e65fb7b3.jpg?v=1685012201","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/about-tracy-fuad-9780822966685","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}