{"product_id":"the-future-is-a-country-i-do-not-live-in-paperback","title":"The Future Is a Country I Do Not Live in - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCynthia T. Buiza\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In her enchanting collection of poems, Cynthia Buiza traces \"the shape of memories, \/ the noise they make,\" with a delicate, uncompromising touch. Her calm, melodious lines push open the doors we tell ourselves we cannot open, doors to rooms that hold what we believe we cannot face - \"mother, lover, loss.\" Distilled from years of longing and griefwork, of solitary walks and communal rituals, Buiza's wisdom is sweet wine for bitter times.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-Boris Dralyuk, poet, translator and Editor-in-Chief of \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cynthia Buiza's poetry continues to witness, unceasingly, inviting us to join her in what I call as the last vigil to a passing world, where despite the odds and doubts, she continues to recollect the tracks and thoughts of our fugitive, fragile lives, now enshrined in a foreign tongue she has recoiled and reconciled as her own domicile, a second skin.\"-Kristian Sendon Cordero, poet and translator\u003cbr\u003e\"What does poetry look like from the notebooks of a life thoughtfully walked? These pages reflect the maturity of consequence, filled by a migrant advocate, world citizen, and a spirit who has held poetry long enough to understand its torrents. Poetry, for those who stroll outside its white walls, is a \"miracle at dawn.\" And there are many miracles in this debut collection - language as a \"dance between mercy and grace\" - so much thinking, so much survival, so much courage, from a poet who paves her journey by documenting the everyday vanishings and appearances.\"-Bino A. Realuyo, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Gods We Worship Live Next Door \u003c\/em\u003eand co-founder of The Asian American Writers Workshop\u003cbr\u003e\"Many worlds collide in the poetry of Cynthia Buiza, but what remains with the reader are the worlds of the new country vis-a-vis the old homeland. Silt and silk, stone and star, a vast country and an archipelago \"with too many names for islands.\" People suffer and live in her poems; violence and hope commingle here. \"She maps this line of desolation from one continent to another...\" It is a poetry teeming with images moist and melancholy, \"ghosts frozen in the dead eye of memory.\" The rough-grained world of the everyday and the slippery world of dreams are present, \"surfacing in her dreams\/ trailed by a lullaby of crickets nesting... in secret places.\" This is an assured debut for a poet whose wise and wonderful voice deserves to be heard, loud and clear.\"-Danton Remoto, author of \u003cem\u003eRiverrun, A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e, Winner of the National Achievement Award for Poetry, Writers' Union of the Philippines\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42121333604487,"sku":"9781734496598","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/61aae7ad0b2e4308887eb898c032e484.webp?v=1732552831","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-future-is-a-country-i-do-not-live-in-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}