{"product_id":"9781931337441","title":"Amorisco","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom “Heartsong”:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnd I say come like a stranger, like a feather falling on an old woman’s shoulder, like a hawk that comes to feed from her hands, come like a mystery,\u003cbr\u003elike sunlight rain, a blessing, a bus falling off a bridge,\u003cbr\u003ecome like a deserting soldier, a murderer chased by law,\u003cbr\u003elike a girl prostitute escaping her pimp, come like a lost horse,\u003cbr\u003elike a dog dying of thirst, come love, come ragged and melancholy like the last day on earth, come like a sigh from a sick man,\u003cbr\u003ecome like a whisper, like a bump on the road, like a flood,\u003cbr\u003ea dam breaking, turbines falling from the sky,\u003cbr\u003ecome love like the stench of a swamp, a barrage of light filling a blind girl’s eye, come like a memory convulsing the body into sobs, like a carcass floating on a stream,\u003cbr\u003ecome like a vision, come love like a crushing need,\u003cbr\u003ecome like an afterthought. Heart song. Heart song\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eKhaled Mattawa \u003c\/b\u003e was born in Benghazi, Libya, and immigrated to the United States in his teens. As a poet, he is a citizen of the world. Both American and an exile, he writes of the beauties and grievances of history and culture in language born of profound experience. The author of \u003ci\u003eIsmailia Eclipse \u003c\/i\u003e and translator of three volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry, Mattawa has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and an NEA translation grant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050410131696,"sku":"9781931337441","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931337441_p0.jpg?v=1763638085","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931337441","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}