Octobers - Poems

Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Info autore

Sahar Muradi is author of the chapbooks [ G A T E S ], A Garden Beyond My Hand, and Ask Hafiz: A Migration Story Told through Poetic Divination. She is coeditor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature and EMERGENC(Y): Writing Afghan Lives beyond the Forever War: An Anthology of Writing from Afghanistan and Its Diaspora, and coauthor of A Ritual in X Movements. She is a recipient of the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award and the Patrons' Prize for Emerging Writers from Thornwillow Press, as well as a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Sahar is cofounder of the Afghan American Artists & Writers Association and dearly believes in the bottom of the rice pot.

Riassunto

Octobers traces the four great tumults of the author’s life, all of which originated in that jagged month of different years: The US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of her daughter.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sahar Muradi, Muradi Sahar
• Editore: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9780822967088
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6708-8
• Pagine: 120
• Dimensioni: 164 mm x 238 mm x 32 mm
• Peso: 552 g
• Serie: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata