{"product_id":"smother-poems","title":"Smother : Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"contained\" id=\"itemContainer\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"tempList1\" class=\"tempListContainer\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"listHolding\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"ltRow1324086106\" class=\"ltRow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"as_1324086106\" class=\"textMedium tr_Frame activeRow listItem_0 \n    tr_Br\n     listItem_0\" data-item=\"1324086106\" data-row=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"lvSection\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"content_1_1324086106\" class=\"tr_Expanded titleContentDiv tr_Hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"desc_summary1324086106-content\" class=\"expandContent\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn this searching, defiant collection, award-winning poet Rachel Richardson takes up the existential losses of climate change and insists on the work of survival.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow should we raise our children in, and for, a world that is burning? Rachel Richardson’s third collection,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmother\u003c\/em\u003e, interrogates this impossible question. The poet, raising young daughters and grieving the death of a mother friend, documents a string of record-breaking fires across the California landscape and the rage, sorrow, and detachment that follow amidst the pervasive smoke. Environmental and physical predation—on the earth and on the female body—weave through the book in layers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut these are not poems of giving up. The poems in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmother\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003egather accomplices in grief and mothering, seek out guides and girlfriends, remember the dead, keep watch at the firebreaks, and plant new trees on the burn scars. From lyric forms to moments of prose and documentary collage, these poems sing their song of resistance made from the music that is available to us now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Within that vast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etriangle, land that appears\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eto be hanging only by a flimsy hinge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eto the continent, the burn scars\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ehaving leveled the grasses, having pushed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe elk elsewhere up the ragged edge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efor reeds, the hearts of some downed trees\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003estill smolder. This is what I go for. To walk inside it,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eto know what remains of the kingdom.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—from “The Map Is Not The Territory”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandHeader accFont\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"desc_quotes_reviews1324086106-content\" class=\"expandContent\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"imageDialog\" title=\"Add\/Edit Images\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"linksDialog\" title=\"Add\/Edit Links\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"eventsDialog\" title=\"Add\/Edit Events\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"tempList2\" class=\"tempListContainer\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"listHolding\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"featured-titles-inset-con\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"posStart\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"footerBar\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"orderFooter bgdColorMyActions\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"orderFooterInterior\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"orderFooterSection noSelect\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"orderFooterLabel icon-order-icon iconSVG\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"orderFooterSection crossHatch noSelect\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"orderFooterSection crossHatch noSelect orderFooterFinalColumn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"orderMoreActions\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"orderFooterSection\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"help_titlelist_orders\" class=\"column clickable help help_titlelist_orders\" data-contentid=\"help_titlelist_orders\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WW Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872725311768,"sku":"9781324086109","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/2852\/6872\/files\/9781324086109_522be.jpg?v=1741721005","url":"https:\/\/www.clearysbookstore.com\/products\/smother-poems","provider":"Cleary's Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}