{"product_id":"hard-damage-paperback","title":"Hard Damage - 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\u003eAria Aber\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHard Damage\u003c\/i\u003e works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of these relations--in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and modern-day Islamic terrorism--for her family and the world at large. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Invested in and suspicious of the pain of family and the shame of selfhood, the speakers of these richly evocative and musical poems mourn the magnitude of citizenship as a state of place and a state of mind. While \u003ci\u003eHard Damage\u003c\/i\u003e is framed by free-verse poetry, the middle sections comprise a lyric essay in fragments and a long documentary poem. Aber explores Rilke in the original German, the urban melancholia of city life, inherited trauma, and displacement on both linguistic and environmental levels, while employing surrealist and eerily domestic imagery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAria Aber \u003c\/b\u003eis a Ron Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her poems have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351192387833,"sku":"9781496215703","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WEoremR3WElaeUh6Y2FOWEUxWnlMdz09.webp?v=1769795592","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/hard-damage-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}