{"product_id":"granny-cloud-isbn-9781681378596","title":"Granny Cloud","description":"\u003cb\u003eA playful, ecstatic, and invigorating collection of lyrical work by one of America's finest young poets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFarnoosh Fathi’s poetry has been admired for its “riot of associations and sonic improvisations” (Christine Hume, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e); its commitment to fathoming language as what it is—an unfathomable depth. \u003ci\u003eGranny Cloud\u003c\/i\u003e, Fathi’s second book of poems, showcases her gifts both in short works of prodigious concentration and in a long poem, “Anyone’s Don’tanelle,” composed of the drafts and do-overs that led to “Fontanelle”—a wild reimagining of the dispirited court tumbler said to have inspired St. Francis’s “Jugglers of God.” \u003ci\u003eGranny Cloud\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of ecstatic decisions and revisions, constantly reversed, constantly renewed.“The  fantastical and strange second collection from Farnoosh Fathi evokes  André Breton’s surrealism and the linguistic playfulness of Gertrude  Stein.... Enthusiasts of formal innovation and linguistic play will  savor this astonishing volume.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Specializing in moments of linguistic collision, Fathi, in just a few deft syllables, can trigger a riot of associations and sonic improvisations that extend beyond the ironic, beyond belletristic distractions, into the nuanced tonal inflections of a self and culture auscultated.\" —Christine Hume, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Farnoosh Fathi is looking for a most vulgar \u003ci\u003eself\u003c\/i\u003e-satisfaction in writing… 'What others rule operatic was for me finally accurate!'; 'My legs espalier'; 'No one who means it knows it.' The comparisons are discontent. These are horological poems. They appeal to life’s cycles—to Fathi's own greatness.\" —Corina Copp\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Poetry, like the humours, like the soul, can be grasped only when its exuberance exceeds the body. \u003ci\u003eGranny Cloud\u003c\/i\u003e is that exuberance, thus illustrating the impossibility of finding form. This book is the Tower of Babel for our generation! The poems wander off the page, and walk, as Saint Francis did, to call to birds.\" —Darcie Dennigan \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Ah, 'what have I done in my able meter?,' a drily dismayed Farnoosh Fathi asks herself. A jubilant lot, I’d say... Poetry too radically rambunctious, too linguistically lubricious to be defined by even her, let alone by this admiring ‘ogre kissing guesses’—who can, however, declare enthusiastically that she deserves as wide an audience as possible, especially among the extravagant.\" —Stephen Yenser\u003cb\u003eFarnoosh Fathi \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eGreat Guns\u003c\/i\u003e (Canarium, 2013), the editor of \u003ci\u003eJoan Murray: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (NYRB, 2018), and the founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She lives and teaches in New York.","brand":"NYRB Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303667486949,"sku":"NP9781681378596","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681378596.jpg?v=1767728436","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/granny-cloud-isbn-9781681378596","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}