{"product_id":"questions-and-their-retinue-hatif-janabi-9781557284327","title":"Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems of Hatif Janabi","description":"\u003cp\u003eHatif Janabi's poems are passionate, jolting, apocalyptic, and painful. They deal with war and death, perception and truth, drawing from his family life, his exile in Poland, the Gulf War, violence in Iraq, and his experience in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe speaker in many of Janabi's poems moves from a confrontational stance to one of resigned desperation, and from coyness to deep longing, where, occasionally, hope surfaces. The associative processes and the often bizarre surreal imagery he employs are very effective in expressing his profound sense of political and spiritual alienation. Janabi is among a generation of Arab poets who, because of censorship, can speak only obliquely about the harsh reality of their lives. In these poems he has created symbolic landscapes that attempt to reveal the political, social, and psychological stresses with which suffering people live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hatif Janabi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1557284326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781557284327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 5.97w x 0.27d","brand":"Hatif Janabi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485617041663,"sku":"9781557284327","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6027afa4-28f7-4db6-ba74-9fb24ffae8c8.jpg?v=1778050410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/questions-and-their-retinue-hatif-janabi-9781557284327","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}