{"product_id":"tocqueville-khaled-mattawa-9781936970612","title":"Tocqueville","description":"\"When I first read Khaled Mattawa's Tocqueville some years ago, it rewired my brain and pummeled my heart. A daring meditation on what it means to be a poet and a citizen at the center of American empire, Tocqueville was an astonishing departure from Mattawa's previous lyrically driven work, declaring that it no longer suffices to sing-- even to sing of dark times, as Bertolt Brecht proposed. Reading these poems today, in this timely second edition, we become witnesses to our implicatedness, the vulnerable privilege of a first world existence on a planet in political, economic, and ecological crisis.\"--Philip Metres \u003cbr\u003e \"Khaled Mattawa continues to write a global poetry . . . his voice clearly evolved into one of daring necessity that does not demand national identity.\" --Bloomsbury Review \u003cbr\u003e \"Mattawa's Tocqueville is not a mere revision of that historical document, but poetry based on motion, where narrative doesn't construct a story--it is more a screenplay that metamorphoses into a democratic account, a lyric slide show that disrupts conventional time into 'the befores that follow the first before.' Tocqueville is a major present in (and to) American poetry.\" --Fady Joudah, Ploughshares \u003cbr\u003e \"A poetry in which politics are considered through both potent emotion and exacting investigation, a work haunting in its scope and, most of all, in its critical self-awareness.\"--Hilary Plum, Kenyon Review \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Khaled Mattawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936970619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936970612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Issues Poetry and Prose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d","brand":"Khaled Mattawa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125610180863,"sku":"9781936970612","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c66d5c1-f1af-4fc3-9f19-2467a61b0300.jpg?v=1687443593","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tocqueville-khaled-mattawa-9781936970612","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}