Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems Contributor(s): Faizullah, Tarfia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555978002 ISBN-13: 9781555978006 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2017938024 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.4" W x 8.9" (0.40 lbs) 96 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Tarfia Faizullah is a poet of brave and unflinching vision." --Natasha Trethewey --from "100 Bells" Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullah's highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, Seam. Faizullah's new work extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence, war, and loss into poems of many forms and voices--elegies, outcries, self-portraits, and larger-scale confrontations with discrimination, family, and memory. One poem steps down the page like a Slinky; another poem responds to makeup homework completed in the summer of a childhood accident; other poems punctuate the collection with dark meditations on dissociation, discipline, defiance, and destiny; and the near-title poem, "Register of Eliminated Villages," suggests illuminated texts, one a Qur'an in which the speaker's name might be found, and the other a register of 397 villages destroyed in northern Iraq. Faizullah is an essential new poet whose work only grows more urgent, beautiful, and--even in its unsparing brutality--full of love. |