{"product_id":"deluge-paperback-3","title":"Deluge - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeila Chatti\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In \u003cem\u003eDeluge\u003c\/em\u003e... Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma.\" --Naomi Shihab Nye, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this bleeding as flooding. In the Qur'an, as in the Bible, the Flood was sent as punishment. The idea of disease as punishment drives this collection's themes of shame, illness, grief, and gender, transmuting religious narratives through the lens of a young Arab-American woman suffering a taboo female affliction. \u003cem\u003eDeluge\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the childhood roots of faith and desire alongside their present day enactments. Chatti's remarkably direct voice makes use of innovative poetic form to gaze unflinchingly at what she was taught to keep hidden. This powerful piece of life-writing depicts Chatti's journey from diagnosis to surgery and remission in meticulous chronology that binds body to spirit and advocates for the salvation of both. Chatti blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and medical terminology in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeila Chatti is a Tunisian-American woman from East Lansing, Michigan. Born to a Catholic mother and Muslim father, Chatti's life has been greatly impacted by religion and poetry. She has published two chapbooks: \u003cem\u003eEbb\u003c\/em\u003e is included in Akashic Books' 2018 \u003cem\u003eNew Generation of African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTunsiya\/Amrikiya\u003c\/em\u003e was the 2017 Editor's Selection from Bull City Press. She has received multiple scholarships, grants, and awards, including the 2015 Academy of American Poets University Prize, an Artist in Residence Grant through the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and recognition in \u003cem\u003eNarrative Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e's 30 Below 30. Chatti's work was shortlisted for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Chatti currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing at Cleveland State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 74\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351239606521,"sku":"9781556595899","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SW1sY1hndjFBUG13SmhhVFVVSDF2QT09.webp?v=1769795815","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/deluge-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}