{"product_id":"9781571314888","title":"Tula","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTula\u003c\/i\u003e: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for “poem.”\u003cp\u003ePrismatic, startling, rich with meaning yet sparely composed, Chris Santiago’s debut collection of poems begins with one word and transforms it, in a dazzling sleight of hand, into a multivalent symbol for the immigrant experience. \u003ci\u003eTula\u003c\/i\u003e: Santiago reveals to readers a distant land devastated by war. \u003ci\u003eTula\u003c\/i\u003e: its music beckons in rhythms, time signatures, and lullabies. \u003ci\u003eTula\u003c\/i\u003e: can the poem, he seems to ask, build an imaginative bridge back to a family lost to geography, history, and a forgotten language?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the experiences of the “blood stranger”—the second-generation immigrant who does not fully acquire the language of his parents—\u003ci\u003eTula\u003c\/i\u003e paints the portrait of a mythic homeland that is part ghostly underworld, part unknowable paradise. Language splinters. Impossible islands form an archipelago across its landscape. A mother sings lullabies and a father works the graveyard shift in St. Paul—while in the Philippines, two dissident uncles and a grandfather send messages and telegrams from the afterlife.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDeeply ambitious, a collection that examines the shortcomings and possibilities of both language and poetry themselves, \u003ci\u003eTula\u003c\/i\u003e announces the arrival of a major new literary talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040741998832,"sku":"9781571314888","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781571314888_p0.jpg?v=1769900110","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781571314888","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}