{"product_id":"9781771339070","title":"The Tempest","description":"\u003cp\u003eBearing witness to truth, \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e is invested in poetry that attempts to reveal human pain through the art of words. Each poem is powerful, but the book's strength emerges from its collective voice: different political conflicts, cultures, genders, ages, races-one shared human narrative. As we follow these survivors into their past and present lives we learn that poetry was the gift that restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book's wanderings in and out of forms-erasure poetry, free verse, prose poetry, haiku, tanka, haibun-signal its approach to some important preoccupations. The collection includes tales of love and rage-from displacement and homecoming, Budapest and its lilac hills above the Danube, where bombs fall, where at a train station cattle wagons wait for Jews to be deported to Auschwitz, where her family lives in Pirka, a Bavarian war refugee settlement- to immigrating to Montreal's ice and snow, founding a family, fleeing an abusive marriage, and becoming an activist and taking a stand against domestic violence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLike the figure she describes in her ekphrastic poem \"Clotho\" as \"Ensnared in long tentacles of hair, skeletal, toothless, chiseled in white marble...\" Martonfi's \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e has hewn her own spare lines to recast her book's obsession with the politics, violences, and musics of the oral.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Inanna Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46434993897713,"sku":"9781771339070","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781771339070_p0.jpg?v=1765529374","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771339070","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}