{"product_id":"9781555978006","title":"Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Tarfia Faizullah is a poet of brave and unflinching vision.” —Natasha Trethewey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSomebody is always singing. Songs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewere not allowed. Mother said,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance and the bells will sing with you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI slithered. Glass beneath my feet. I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003elocked the door. I did not\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003edie. I shaved my head. Until the horns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI knew were there were visible.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUntil the doorknob went silent. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—from “100 Bells”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRegisters of Illuminated Villages\u003c\/i\u003e is Tarfia Faizullah’s highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, \u003ci\u003eSeam\u003c\/i\u003e. Faizullah’s new work extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence, war, and loss into poems of many forms and voices—elegies, outcries, self-portraits, and larger-scale confrontations with discrimination, family, and memory. One poem steps down the page like a Slinky; another poem responds to makeup homework completed in the summer of a childhood accident; other poems punctuate the collection with dark meditations on dissociation, discipline, defiance, and destiny; and the near-title poem, “Register of Eliminated Villages,” suggests illuminated texts, one a Qur’an in which the speaker’s name might be found, and the other a register of 397 villages destroyed in northern Iraq. Faizullah is an essential new poet whose work only grows more urgent, beautiful, and—even in its unsparing brutality—full of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030570615024,"sku":"9781555978006","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555978006_p0.jpg?v=1763754535","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555978006","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}