Octobers: Poems

By Muradi Sahar and Sahar Muradi

Longlist Finalist, 2023 Julie Suk Award

OCTOBERS traces the four great tumults of the author's life, all of which originated in that jagged month of different years: The US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of her daughter. The poems chart heartbreak along a helix, progressively and recursively, where "echoes are inevitable." Ultimately, the collection is concerned with language--as witness and buoy in the white waters of loss, as a tool for violences small and state-crafted, as an asymptote both approaching ideas of "home" and estranged from it, and, beyond it all and still, as a source of wild wonder.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822967081
• ISBN13: 9780822967088
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"