{"product_id":"book-of-kin-9781637680964","title":"Book of Kin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the \"Best Books of 2024\" by the New York Public Library, \u003ci\u003eBook of Kin \u003c\/i\u003edraws on the poet’s Iranian heritage to process life-altering loss and grief.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarius Atefat-Peckham’s debut poetry collection follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident that took the lives of both his mother and brother. Through these poems, Atefat-Peckham constructs a language for grief that is porous and revelatory, spoken assuredly across the imagination, bridging time and space, and creating a reciprocal haunting between the living and the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the Persian epic \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e, the Sufi mystic poetry of Rumi, and his mother’s poetry, these poems form a path of connection between the author and his Iranian heritage. Book of Kin interrogates what it means to exist between cultures, to be a survivor of tragedy, to practice love and joy toward one’s beloveds, and to hope for greater connection through poems that wade through time and memory “like so many fish spreading swimming in the green-blue.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darius Atefat-Peckham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278466920699,"sku":"9781637680964","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781637680964.jpg?v=1772485775","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/book-of-kin-9781637680964","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}