{"product_id":"calligraphies-marilyn-hacker-9781324036463","title":"Calligraphies: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoving from Paris to Beirut and back, \u003cem\u003eCalligraphies\u003c\/em\u003e is a tribute to exiles and refugees, the known and unknown, dead and living, from the American poet Marie Ponsot to the Syrian pasionaria Fadwa Suleiman. Award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker finds resistance, wit, potential, and gleaming connection in everyday moments--a lunch of \"standing near the fridge with \/ labneh, two verbs, and a spoon\"--as a counterweight to the precarity of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith signature passion and agility, Hacker draws from French, Arabic, and English to probe the role of language in identity and revolution. Amid conversations in smoky cafes, personal mourning, and political turmoil, she traces the lines between exiles and expats, immigrants and refugees. A series of \"Montpeyroux Sonnets\" bookends the volume, cataloguing months in 2021 and 2022 in which the poet observes a village \"in pandemic mode\" and reflects on her own aging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a variety of tones and formal registers, from vivid crowns of sonnets to insistent ghazals to elegiac pantoums and riffs on the renga, \u003cem\u003eCalligraphies\u003c\/em\u003e explores a world opened up by language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marilyn Hacker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 132403646X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324036463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.80w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2023 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023 pg. 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/17\/2023","brand":"Marilyn Hacker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071355711743,"sku":"9781324036463","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_683dc4d2-6dbc-4dc3-8d60-445181dfb217.jpg?v=1685435612","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/calligraphies-marilyn-hacker-9781324036463","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}