{"product_id":"border-sounds-kim-peter-kovac-9781952326691","title":"Border Sounds: Poems \u0026 Dispatches from Other Timezones","description":"What happens when a poet with a Master's degree in myth-hunting and a big job in theater travels to historically significant arenas the likes of Jerusalem, Delhi, Cape Town, and Petra? In Kim Peter Kovac's dazzling debut\u003ci\u003e Border Sounds, \u003c\/i\u003e ancient rocks, harsh winds, improbable cacti, and the Red, Dead, and Mediterranean seas are props against which play a cast of colorful characters. They include a sticky-fingered Baku border control officer, the monkey-god Hanuman, a possible Mandela jailer, and a Brahmin prince. Eyewitness encounters\u003ci\u003e a sacred and secular stew \u003c\/i\u003eof cultural iconography, and national tragedy makes for tensions taut as army sheets and just as \u003ci\u003eimpossible to reconcile. \u003c\/i\u003eDialects and dialogues, the magical and real, verbal and nonverbal, all swell and contract until an\u003ci\u003e all-purpose agnostic \u003c\/i\u003eis alchemized into a\u003ci\u003e nearly non-believer.\u003c\/i\u003e Accompanied by the leitmotif of Hoopoe as spirit-bird, Kovac is the ideal travel guide. He \u003ci\u003edowse(s) the soil \/ to stir up stories\u003c\/i\u003e with acerbic wit, a journalistic eye, and solemn respect for the song, pulse, and thrum of language. \u003cp\u003e-Lissa Kiernan, author of \u003ci\u003eTwo Faint Lines in the Violet \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGlass Needles \u0026amp; Goose Quills\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBorder Sounds, \u003c\/i\u003eKim Peter Kovac is a scribe and guide through exotic and everyday landscapes of the outer and inner worlds. These poems probe and conjure in equal measure, simultaneously inviting and provoking us to reconcile the gaps between what is seen, felt, and imagined. He reminds us that\u003ci\u003e even the secrets have secrets.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-David Gonzale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Peter Kovac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952326699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952326691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kim Peter Kovac","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440190402815,"sku":"9781952326691","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bda6d5b2-f2c0-4c2b-b77e-324c90d8d9b6.jpg?v=1777180786","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/border-sounds-kim-peter-kovac-9781952326691","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}