{"product_id":"security-questions","title":"Security Questions","description":"\"It was through writing this book,\" Osdany Morales says, \"that I realized I carried many memories in literary form--that exile had established a past I could already recount without waiting for old age. Exile and poetry made me look not exactly backward, but inward.\" The poems from \u003cem\u003eSecurity Questions\u003c\/em\u003e (originally published as \u003cem\u003eEl pasado es un pueblo solitario\u003c\/em\u003e) are, on the one hand, a lyric sequence shaped by the poet's coming of age in small-town Cuba during the late stages of Fidel Castro's regime, and on the other a testament of exile and immigration, traces that remain in the wake of forsaking a homeland for the uncertainties of a new place. Each poem in this playful and trenchant collection unfolds as a reply to its title, and each title is a question in English that echoes actual online prompts for newly arrived immigrants to establish official identity and security in the United States. With a mix of humor, irony, and sincerity vividly captured by the translator Harry Bauld, Morales transforms these absurd and interrogative bureaucratic authentication questions into the radiant poetry of a new \"American\" persona.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833684046029,"sku":"9780811241380","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_8b476880-e007-4dd0-bb8b-042eb12e7116.jpg?v=1790892799","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/security-questions","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}