{"product_id":"postcards-from-the-underworld-sinan-antoon-9781803092508","title":"Postcards from the Underworld: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloved's home. In \u003ci\u003ePostcards from the Underworld, \u003c\/i\u003e Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two wars--the Iran-Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991--and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoon's poems confront violence and force us not to look away as he traces death's haunting presence in the world. Nature offers consolation, and flowers and butterflies are the poet's interlocutors, but they too cannot escape ruin. Composed in Arabic and translated into English by the poet himself, \u003ci\u003ePostcards from the Underworld\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing meditation on the destruction of humans, habitats, and homes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sinan Antoon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1803092505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803092508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.35w x 0.10d","brand":"Sinan Antoon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44169772237055,"sku":"9781803092508","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9498b79-b20a-4ee3-9339-fa9238b665c9.jpg?v=1689654830","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/postcards-from-the-underworld-sinan-antoon-9781803092508","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}