{"product_id":"9781555974589","title":"Meanwhile Take My Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe American debut of Basque writer Kirmen Uribe's \"simple, devastating poems\" (Bob Holman)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhenever we're saddened everything looks dark,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen we're heartened, again, the world crumbles.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery one of us keeps forever someone else's hidden side,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf it's a secret, if a mistake, if a gesture.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —from \"May\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKirmen Uribe has become one of the best-known Basque-language writers—an important contemporary voice from a vital but largely unknown language. \u003ci\u003eMeanwhile Take My Hand\u003c\/i\u003e presents Uribe's poetry to American readers in both the original and in the poet Elizabeth Macklin's skillful and award-winning translations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these poems are the drug addicts of Spanish fishing towns, the paved-over rivers of urbanized medieval cities, the remains of loving relationships, whether entirely uprooted or making do with a companionable silence. The Basque phrase \u003ci\u003eBitartean heldu eskutik\u003c\/i\u003e, which became the book's title—\u003ci\u003eMeanwhile Take My\u003c\/i\u003e Hand—Uribe has said is \"what you say when there's nothing at all you can say.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055668052208,"sku":"9781555974589","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555974589_p0.jpg?v=1763785647","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555974589","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}