{"product_id":"high-desert-9781780376202","title":"High Desert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh Desert \u003c\/i\u003eis an ode to the American Southwest, exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast’s wildfire epidemic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNaffis-Sahely’s reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the  region’s hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the current  pandemic. The poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh Desert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e also revel in their  rootlessness, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the US,  traveling from Venice and Florence to Chittagong and St Petersburg,  tackling our turbulent times and the depths of its problems in searing,  extraordinary poems of witness and vision.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Naffis-Sahely’s second collection, following his debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin, 2017), a gathering of portraits of  promised lands and those who go in search of them: travelers, laborers,  dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. It includes poems from his  recent pamphlet \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e (Rough Trade Books, 2019). All his collections present poetry as reportage, as much an act of memory as of sinuous, clear-eyed vision. \u003ci\u003eHigh Desert\u003c\/i\u003e was named as one of the '20 best poetry books of 2022\u003cspan\u003e' in \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"André Naffis-Sahely","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280135106811,"sku":"9781780376202","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781780376202.jpg?v=1772486443","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/high-desert-9781780376202","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}