{"product_id":"as-if-this-did-not-happen-every-day-paperback","title":"As If This Did Not Happen Every Day - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs If This Did Not Happen Every Day\u003c\/em\u003e moves forward from the mostly-bird-oriented poems Paula J. Lambert has been working on for years, focusing now on fish, whales, turtles, snakes, and so on. Birds are included, but the poet has turned to a wider array of species to tell a story largely of the feminine. Often victimized, in all kinds of ways-overwhelmed, hunted, and displaced-salvation, if it is to be had, is not in mimicking the patriarchal, searching for some kind of dominance. Grace lies within the larger, divine concept of a collective feminine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I know you know what it feels like,\" the speaker of one poem tells the reader. We live in a world overgrown, overpopulated, diseased, surreal, wild. Fish fall from the sky, birds crash into skyscrapers, and invasive species-in their own attempt to survive-take over every space they find themselves in. Even in our best attempts to help, things fall apart: \"We who've lived long enough...multiply every problem we've inherited.\" What's left, asks the author, but to watch it\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378376376543,"sku":"9781962405034","price":23.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/yRxHWcsvBH9781962405034.webp?v=1789254542","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/as-if-this-did-not-happen-every-day-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}