{"title":"Books!","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurrently on our shelves.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dor","title":"Dor","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"You must write a self\/ out of waiting\/ to speak\" asserts Alina Ștefănescu's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and oh, what a prismatic, many-headed self has been written into existence within these pages. In her stunning second full-length collection, Ștefănescu explores the worlds contained in the Romanian word Dor- a word close to longing but with no exact English equivalent-as it relates to the speaker's life as a daughter, a mother, a foreign body in a country that harms and holds us conditionally. Simultaneously tender and incisive, witty and full transformations, this book and its many ecosystems of longing and belonging begs to be re-read and promises new wonders each time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Jihyun Yun, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSome Are Always Hungry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn one of the beautiful poems in the collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Alina Ștefănescu writes of a \"heart shaped like a shovel.\" Indeed, Ștefănescu's heart unearths the rich mysteries of an amalgam of Romanian and southern American culture in language deeply shadowed but attentive to the most telling of details. This is a collection that twists form and content into poems that are by turns tender or incendiary, or both.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Erin Coughlin Hollowell, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEvery Atom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlina Ștefănescu's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a compendium of desire, displacement, longing, and belonging. While the word \"dor\" itself \"serves as a bridge which creates its own territory from fusion,\" here Stefanescu's words do their own act of bridging the spaces between the body and language. In these poems, tongues, like nations, have borders; nouns and verbs come alive with ownership and agency. Part genealogy of influences, part meditation on love, lust, and loss, and part pointed feminist critique, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a multi-faceted collection that creates a newly textured landscape of language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Emily Holland, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLineage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePoet Lore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLooking at what makes her heart soar with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Alina Ștefănescu leads us through undilluted layers of loss, love, time, language and identity, showing that \"the verb for longing in Romanian is a mouth.\" The condensed nature of the poems and their wordplay invite the reader into a world of sensation and memory where language shifts and blooms, filling mouth and eyes with delight, where, \"any body is a bow, tuned to tremble.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Clara Burghelea, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Flavor of the Other\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome of the most complicated and haunting songs live inside these poems: nocturnes and fugues, the humming of wordless lullabies, birds who \"sing in unpredatored darkness,\" and most significantly, the doina-a traditional Romanian folk song of intense longing. That longing charges and electrifies this book: an attempt to hold the uncontainable, to name the unnamable, to translate an emotion that can't quite be translated from one language to another. From inside these uncharted spaces, Alina Ștefănescu gifts us with this moving collection and all its rare, disquieting music.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Matthew Olzmann, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eContradictions in the Design\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"And what is memory \/ if not fondled ache...\" From the Romanian Republic of Alabama, \"where longing is \/a homeland\", Alina Ștefănescu's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esings us back to the forgotten, the lost, the silences we hold and grow; here we learn, \"looking back is a way of looking within.\" These are poems that bruise in the way they remind us we are alive. The book will singe your fingertips, show the life you are sewn into, feed you missing language, and cut through the deep-fake of not feeling. As the poet reminds us, \"The danger is not dying but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eliving in exile from \/ longing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Amelia Martens, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Words on Pages Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52952999854445,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/7700\/3885\/files\/dor.jpg?v=1769118736"},{"product_id":"jane-eyre-signature-clothbound-editions","title":"Jane Eyre (Signature Clothbound Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFollowing the death of her uncle, the orphan Jane Eyre is sent to the Lowood School, where she grows into a confident and well-educated young woman. 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And that's the thing about your first love-we all have a love story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut this isn't a love story.This is a life story.The good.The bad.The heartache.It's all here.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLove is truly a battlefield...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLove is scary, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. When you love someone wholeheartedly, you leave yourself open to being destroyed...and that's what I did, what I still do even though I know better.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut it doesn't make a difference.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe best kind of love doesn't make sense. But that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis one-in-a-million story is mine, and if you take anything away from this book, it would be to never be afraid to love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo, let me introduce myself. 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