{"product_id":"books-abduction-by-robin-cook","title":"Abduction","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrief is a kind of exile, and these are the poems of an exile, of a woman driven by cruelty into a world where her rights as a mother are negated- the right to give love, the right to receive love, the right to determine her life in accord with her own independent sense of what is proper and just.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer subjects here are grief and love, the truths and impossibilities of each and both. More particularly, the grief of a loving mother cruelly separated from her infant son, the need to find a language of love that may pass between them when he is restored to her embrace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Syria, long-time exile in Paris, Maram al-Masri has built up a devoted international following for her poems. She writes with a clarity and directness that pierces to the heart of things, in poems that remorselessly trace the destruction of her homeland, that inquire with a cool intelligence into the condition of women in our time; here, with great poignancy, she explores and lays bare the tragedy when a child is torn from the embrace of his mother, the difficulties both must face when he is at last restored to her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaram al-Masri is a Syrian poet living in France. Theo Dorgan has previously translated two of her collections into English: \u003ci\u003eBarefoot Souls\u003c\/i\u003e (ARC, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eLiberty Walks Naked\u003c\/i\u003e (Southword, 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheo Dorgan's most recent books are \u003ci\u003eOrpheus\u003c\/i\u003e (Dedalus Press, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eBail ad Giof gacha\u003c\/i\u003e, his translations into Irish of Lorca's Romancero Gitano (Coisc im, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53768071512337,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780425177365.jpg?v=1783941904","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-abduction-by-robin-cook","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}