{"product_id":"meanwhile-take-my-hand-9781555974589","title":"Meanwhile Take My Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kirmen Uribe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - Spanish \u0026amp; Portuguese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe American debut of Basque writer Kirmen Uribe's \"simple, devastating poems\" (Bob Holman)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhenever we're saddened everything looks dark, \u003cbr\u003eWhen we're heartened, again, the world crumbles.\u003cbr\u003eEvery one of us keeps forever someone else's hidden side, \u003cbr\u003eIf it's a secret, if a mistake, if a gesture.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --from \"May\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKirmen Uribe has become one of the best-known Basque-language writers--an important contemporary voice from a vital but largely unknown language. \u003ci\u003eMeanwhile Take My Hand\u003c\/i\u003e presents Uribe's poetry to American readers in both the original and in the poet Elizabeth Macklin's skillful and award-winning translations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these poems are the drug addicts of Spanish fishing towns, the paved-over rivers of urbanized medieval cities, the remains of loving relationships, whether entirely uprooted or making do with a companionable silence. The Basque phrase \u003ci\u003eBitartean heldu eskutik\u003c\/i\u003e, which became the book's title--\u003ci\u003eMeanwhile Take My\u003c\/i\u003e Hand--Uribe has said is \"what you say when there's nothing at all you can say.\"","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45354612719767,"sku":"9781555974589","price":745.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781555974589.webp?v=1767669843","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/meanwhile-take-my-hand-9781555974589","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}