# Octobers

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- Authors: [Sahar Muradi](https://www.bookquiver.com/sahar-muradi)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2023-10-10
- Genres: Poetry / Poems, Fiction: literary and general non-genre

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Octobers

- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN: 978-08-2296-708-8
- Pages: 120
- Published: 2023-10-10
- Language: en_US