{"product_id":"oracular-maladies-sophia-terazawa-9781955992701","title":"Oracular Maladies","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book of curses, \u003ci\u003eOracular Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e summons an ecstatic performance of divas arriving in glamorous form. The backdrop: Vietnamese tonality, displacement, and reclamation. Cicadas arrive onstage. Cows arrive onstage. An odyssey of someone walking on her knees across an entire country makes a video onstage. This is Terazawa's third poetry collection, a wonder of light upon diacritic marks, layers of breathless music uneasy with its hybrid nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemplating fraught intersections between a mother's language of Vietnamese and craft considerations of Japanese-English meter, \u003ci\u003eOracular Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e forms a series of six spoken \"scores\" mirroring the tonal arc of a musical variety show familiar to the Vietnamese diaspora, \"Paris by Night.\" These poems are like a VHS box set dusted off for the first time after decades. Projective verse and prayers flash across the page. The melodrama receives respect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sophia Terazawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1955992703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955992701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Noemi Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.23h x 8.83w x 0.40d","brand":"Sophia Terazawa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48450459730175,"sku":"9781955992701","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_078322c5-d58e-47d7-b07e-0728559840a7.jpg?v=1777267886","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/oracular-maladies-sophia-terazawa-9781955992701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}