{"product_id":"summonings","title":"Summonings","description":"Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, Raena Shirali's \u003ci\u003esummonings\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the ongoing practice of witch (\" daayan\" ) hunting in India. Here, poems interrogate the political implications \u0026amp; shortcomings of writing Subaltern personae while acknowledging the author's Westernized positionality. Continuing to explore multi-national and intersectional concerns around identity raised in her debut collection, Shirali asks how first- \u0026amp; second-generation immigrants reconcile the self with the lineages that shape it, wondering aloud about those lineages' relationships to misogyny \u0026amp; violence. These precarious poems explore how antiquated \u0026amp; existing norms surrounding female mysticism in India \u0026amp; America inform each culture's treatment of women. As Jericho Brown wrote of Shirali's poetics in \u003ci\u003eGILT\u003c\/i\u003e, her \" comment on culture, on identity, on justice is her comment on poetry.\" summonings is comment on power \u0026amp; patriarchy, on authorial privilege \u0026amp; the shifting role of witness, \u0026amp;, ultimately, on an ethical poetics, grounded in the inevitable failure to embody the Other.","brand":"Raena Shirali","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44857601130538,"sku":"9781625570413","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/summonings-3133398.jpg?v=1789614733","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/summonings","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}