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Each poem engages with its author's local landscape-be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop-offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what \"nature\" and \"poetry\" are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378340561119,"sku":"9781571315687","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HNY_-FMscB9781571315687.webp?v=1789254443"},{"product_id":"sharks-in-the-rivers-paperback","title":"Sharks in the Rivers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion--both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limón reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage cans they've crawled into. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout \u003cem\u003eSharks in the Rivers\u003c\/em\u003e, Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it \"keep[s] opening before us,\" for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual, and each person's mouth \"is the same \/ mouth as everyone's, all trying to say the same thing.\" For Limón, it's the saying--individual and collective -- that transforms each of us into \"a wound overcome by wonder,\" that allows \"the wind itself\" to be our \"own wild whisper.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378378506463,"sku":"9781571314383","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wjRngjXqbo9781571314383.webp?v=1789254553"},{"product_id":"bright-dead-things-poems-paperback","title":"Bright Dead Things: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, \u003cem\u003e Bright Dead Things\u003c\/em\u003e examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is \"disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact--tracing in intimate detail the ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. 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