{"product_id":"piecemeal-ahana-banerji-9781917150019","title":"Piecemeal","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Piecemeal, Ahana Banerji inhabits the soft and the small: wrists, fists, and window frost, mustard seed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand salmon scale. Her poetry lives inside the minute pressures of everyday life, inside the shudders and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebruises of the human body. In paying careful attention to parts of the whole, Banerji's smallest gestures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebecome suddenly enormous. These are poems about fear and family, about love and language and hunger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBanerji moves through a variety of forms-villanelle, prose poem, 'bedtime story'-with a quiet rhythmic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econfidence. And from within the glistening structures of the poems, we glimpse strange characters and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econversations. There are mothers and daughters, gods and lobsters, Federico García Lorca and Joan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDidion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Piecemeal, though, is the speaker's promise to herself: 'I, too, will be \/ good. Good \/ as the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejugular's perfect hyacinth'. It is an intensely vivid and hopeful promise from a powerful new voice in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ahana Banerji\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1917150016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917150019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nine Pens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.08d","brand":"Ahana Banerji","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611839742207,"sku":"9781917150019","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_236aab04-0757-411e-9835-faad2fec518d.jpg?v=1764516412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/piecemeal-ahana-banerji-9781917150019","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}