{"product_id":"these-trees-those-leaves-this-hayan-charara-9781571315410","title":"These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eKingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good-a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThese Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e, Hayan Charara presents readers with a medley of ambitious analyses, written in characteristically wry verse. He takes philosophers to task, jousts with academics, and scrutinizes hollow gestures of empathy, exposing the dangers of thinking ourselves \"separate \/ from [our] thoughts and experiences.\" After all, \"No work of love \/ will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart.\" But how do we act on fullness of heart? How, knowing as we do that \"genocide is inscribed in our earliest and holiest texts\"? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThoughtful but never preachy, Charara sits beside us, granting us access to life's countless unglamorous dilemmas: crushing a spider when we promised we wouldn't, nearing madness from a newborn's weeping, resenting our lovers for what happened in a dream. \"Good poems demand to be written from inside the poet,\" we are reminded. And that is where we find ourselves here: inside a lively and ethical mind, entertained by Charara's good company even as goodness challenges us to do more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hayan Charara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571315411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022 pg. 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/22\/2022","brand":"Hayan Charara","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042602807551,"sku":"9781571315410","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66f02abc-7a6a-4189-a264-5022c58a782d.jpg?v=1684962460","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/these-trees-those-leaves-this-hayan-charara-9781571315410","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}