{"product_id":"by-stone-and-needle-poems-paperback","title":"By Stone and Needle: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShimmering to the pulse of the unseen, \u003ci\u003eBy Stone and Needle \u003c\/i\u003ecircles like a compass needle around the figure of the witch. Catherine Carter concocts a book of secular spells and incantations for engaging with, and meditating upon, a world in which all things are connected, in which symbol slides into literal, spirituality into science, exact observation into lamentation and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eBy Stone and Needle \u003c\/i\u003espin connecting threads between night sweats, witch drownings, creation stories, pedicures, goddesses--and, especially, between miraculously interconnected ecosystems and the forces that threaten them. Speakers encompass personae including lactobacilli bacteria, bodily yeasts, and the classical witch Medea, while elsewhere a contemporary version of the goddess Artemis appears in Appalachia. Carter's poetic vision imbues everyday moments such as putting on a coat, piercing an ear, confronting racism and patriarchy, or eating onion slices with a new definition of magic as \"the human thing.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378530058463,"sku":"9780807185070","price":23.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KMb9uBpVEh9780807185070.webp?v=1789257983","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/by-stone-and-needle-poems-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}