{"product_id":"9781934200674","title":"Undergloom","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from the descent into Hell in the opening passage of Homer’s Iliad—“and crowded brave souls into the undergloom”—Prageeta Sharma's fourth collection chronicles personal and internal wars using the American frontier as a central metaphor to address questions of community and belonging, outsiderness, and the inevitability of a racialized self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"Will You Let Go For Ransom?\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNO.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnd so deep was the fall, what a drop; I had nicks on my knuckles.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThere is a passage of time for all of it to hold you, then you hold it,\u003cbr\u003eyou wring it by its neck,\u003cbr\u003eit’s murderous and invisible—a darkling spot that grips.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnd on some days, we would head to the bar—in the middle of the river,\u003cbr\u003ethe wail or the cries there found us.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSome colleagues had tears down each eye.\u003cbr\u003eSome other colleagues made them cry.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWe tried handing them words, but it all became inaccurate fast.\u003cbr\u003eI held my purse in my fist.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNot sure if this was a place I could get mugged,\u003cbr\u003eBut I was reminded that it wasn’t. I was still unsure.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first-generation child of a South Asian immigrant family and a native of Framingham, Massachusetts, \u003cb\u003ePrageeta Sharma \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBliss to Fill\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThe Opening Question \u003c\/i\u003e (selected by Peter Gizzi for the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize), and \u003ci\u003eInfamous Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e . She is also the recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Grant. Sharma is associate professor and director of the creative writing program at the University of Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fence Magazine, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033778340080,"sku":"9781934200674","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934200674_p0.jpg?v=1763784538","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934200674","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}