{"product_id":"sister-tongue-paperback-softback-9781606354445","title":"Sister Tongue (Paperback \/ softback) 9781606354445","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSister Tongue\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFarnaz Fatemi (Author), Tracy K. Smith (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781606354445\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 August 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e88 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.5 x 13.9 x 0.8 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword Indie Awards Honorable Mention 2023 in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fatemi makes language think aloud and sing in these ruminative, beautiful poems.\" —\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e *starred review*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Farnaz Fatemi's \u003cem\u003eSister Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e explores the experience of living between the cultures of Iran and the United States, and of trying to find a voice to describe that in-betweenness. The poems take root in various liminal spaces, tracking the poet's journey through cross-cultural identity and expression.\"—\u003cem\u003ePedestal Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In her debut verse collection, Farnaz Fatemi skillfully explores the nuanced between-life of Farsi and English and how that negative space houses language, displacement, longing, and the materiality of memory. .... This celebration of honoring roots, as a poem and a collection of poems, creates a treasury of understanding and introduction within the Iranian diaspora as a culture.\" —World Literature Today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"…[a] complex [and] dazzling collection of poetry and poetic prose…\" \u003cstrong\u003e—EscapeIntoLife.com\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eSister Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e, Fatemi shines gorgeous light on the liminal space between languages, bearing witness to the joy and longing that accompany every act of translation.\" —Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003cem\u003eLife on Mars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Delicious, provocative, and incredibly wise, Farnaz Fatemi transcends years and oceans in these pages. Like gripping a cup and string to the ear, \u003cem\u003eSister Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e is a hopeful missive, proof of words and their witnesses, an atlas of the wonder of becoming.\"—T Kira Madden, author of \u003cem\u003eLong Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I praise the present tense of these poems for its tensile strength, its ability to hold the struggle that is happening in the past, present, and future. The way it speaks of the perpetual, of what it is to be tongue-tied in the presence of one's other self. 'Language is geological,' this speaker tells us, 'a process of accumulation, and accretion accompanied by landslides.' In setting out to speak the language of her blood, she finds herself at once estranged and embraced. Thrilled and defeated. What to do with such a natural disaster? These poems persist in their attempts to bridge worlds, offering hope of a complex and hard-won reconciliation, one richly crafted line at a time. In the words of Fatemi, 'I want the foreigner in me \/ to meet the foreigner in me.'\" —Danusha Laméris, author of \u003cem\u003eBonfire Opera\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSister Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e, Farnaz Fatemi's debut poetry collection, transports us to a place where language must stretch to fit the largeness of human love and longing, and in doing so, fills the absences we did not even know we harbored. \u003cem\u003eSister Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e begins to say what many of us already know—that borders and countries are too limiting to define us. Her poems offer us both a reckoning and a salve.\"—Persis M. Karim, chair of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Poet Farnaz Fatemi is the soulful Iranian American truth-teller and wonder-wanderer we've needed to hear. In Farsi, in English, in Tehran, or California, these poems cherish the miracle of connectedness by weaving family threads through time and space—through sisters, mothers, grandmothers, through a changed and changing world. \u003cem\u003eSister Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e is a luscious love letter to language(s), spoken in a trusting, intimate voice. The poet recognizes the twinned solace of silence and song, of sister and self. Loss takes its seat, as it does, at the table, and Fatemi, with tea, family history, powerful memory, and a new\/old tongue, inscribes it alongside the depths of beauty and joy in this radiant book of passionate understanding.\" —Brenda Shaughnessy, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Octopus Museum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Neither exile nor immigrant, Farnaz Fatemi writes with a double intelligence that transcends any presuppositions we might bring to a poetry of the other. She claims her strategic advantage with confidence and laser-like insight, the gift of deep listening and the power of naming, as she slips back and forth freely across borders like a master spy reporting from an uncharted world suspended between two cultures. I am optimistic that \u003cem\u003eSister Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e speaks the language of our future.\"—Zara Houshmand, writera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The Kent State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739469607192,"sku":"9781606354445","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sister-tongue-paperback-softback-9781606354445","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}