{"product_id":"registers-of-illuminated-villages","title":"Registers of Illuminated Villages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Tarfia Faizullah is a poet of brave and unflinching vision.\" --Natasha Trethewey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSomebody is always singing. Songs\u003cbr\u003ewere not allowed. Mother said, \u003cbr\u003eDance and the bells will sing with you.\u003cbr\u003eI slithered. Glass beneath my feet. I\u003cbr\u003elocked the door. I did not\u003cbr\u003edie. I shaved my head. Until the horns\u003cbr\u003eI knew were there were visible.\u003cbr\u003eUntil the doorknob went silent.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--from \"100 Bells\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRegisters of Illuminated Villages\u003c\/i\u003e is Tarfia Faizullah's highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, \u003ci\u003eSeam\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.","brand":"Tarfia Faizullah","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68099345809559,"sku":"9781555978006","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_e8f0a50f-cb0f-4f3e-bd31-32667614c720.jpg?v=1792480694","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/registers-of-illuminated-villages","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}