{"product_id":"postcards-from-the-underworld-poems","title":"Postcards from the Underworld: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePostcards from the Underworld: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSinan Antoon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781803092508\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSeagull Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloved's home. In \u003ci\u003ePostcards from the Underworld, \u003c\/i\u003e Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two wars--the Iran-Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991--and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoon's poems confront violence and force us not to look away as he traces death's haunting presence in the world. Nature offers consolation, and flowers and butterflies are the poet's interlocutors, but they too cannot escape ruin. Composed in Arabic and translated into English by the poet himself, \u003ci\u003ePostcards from the Underworld\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing meditation on the destruction of humans, habitats, and homes.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Postcards from the Underworld: Poems | Sinan Antoon | Paperback | 9781803092508 | New | Poetry 1625290","offer_id":50777783206146,"sku":"1625290","price":33.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61NEQGdwZ6L.jpg?v=1792167772","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/postcards-from-the-underworld-poems","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}