Longlist Finalist, 2023 Julie Suk Award
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. The poems chart heartbreak along a helix, progressively and recursively, where "echoes are inevitable." Ultimately, the collection is concerned with language—as witness and buoy in the white waters of loss, as a tool for violences small and state-crafted, as an asymptote both approaching ideas of "home" and estranged from it, and, beyond it all and still, as a source of wild wonder.
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- CONTENTS
- I. THE OCCUPATION, 2001
- II. THE PASSING, 2016
- III. THE SEPARATION, 2009
- IV. THE BIRTH, 2018
- V. AFTER OCTOBER
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
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