{"product_id":"threshold-paperback-20","title":"Threshold - 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\u003eIman Mersal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt's premier poet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIman Mersal is Egypt's--indeed, the Arab world's--great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voice that is ferocious and tender, street-smart and vulnerable. Her early work captures the energies of Cairo's legendary literary \u003ci\u003ebohème\u003c\/i\u003e, a home for \"Lovers of cheap weed and awkward confessions \/ Anti-State agitators\" and \"People like me.\" These are poems of wit and rage, freaked by moments of sudden beauty, like \"the smell of guava\" mysteriously wafting through the City of the Dead. Other poems bear witness to agonizing loss and erotic temptation, \"the breath of two bodies that never had enough time \/ and so took pleasure in their mounting terror.\" Mersal's most recent work illuminates the trials of displacement and migration, as well as the risks of crossing boundaries, personal and political, in literature and in life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Threshold \u003c\/i\u003egathers poems from Mersal's first four collections of poetry: A Dark Alley Suitable for Dance Lessons (1995), \u003ci\u003eWalking as Long as Possible\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eAlternative Geography\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), and\u003ci\u003e Until I Give \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUp the Idea of Home\u003c\/i\u003e (2013). Taken together, these works chart a poetic itinerary from defiance and antagonism to the establishment of a new, self-created sensibility. At their center is the poet: indefatigably intelligent, funny, flawed, and impossible to pin down. As she writes, \"I'm pretty sure \/ my self-exposures \/ are for me to hide behind.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIman Mersal\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of poems and a collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eHow to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e. In English translation, her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eReview\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. Her prose work, \u003ci\u003eTraces of Enayat\u003c\/i\u003e, received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature in 2021. She is a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobyn Creswell\u003c\/b\u003e teaches comparative literature at Yale University and is a consulting editor for poetry at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCity of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ein Beirut\u003c\/i\u003e and contributes regularly to \u003ci\u003eThe New York \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eReview of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.25 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336126677241,"sku":"9780374607852","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/0tMRQS8xNd9780374607852_dbde3f22-6be3-479a-af83-c4291f0fbae0.webp?v=1769667196","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/threshold-paperback-20","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}