{"product_id":"canopy-poems-hardcover","title":"Canopy: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLinda Gregerson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from \"a contemporary master\"*--a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment *\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda Gregerson's long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, \"in a world where every breath I take is luck.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Syrian refugee and ecological crises, to police brutality and COVID, to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, the poems ask: How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved one, and how do we mourn strangers?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe magnificent poems in \u003ci\u003eCanopy \u003c\/i\u003ecatalogue and reckon with humanity and the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world of overlapping crises, how do we find language for what we've witnessed?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Natural World: \u003c\/b\u003e From the Global Seed Vault under permafrost to the radical fragility of our shared ecosystem, these poems confront the realities of our planet in crisis.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOn Grief and Mortality: \u003c\/b\u003e Gregerson asks the most difficult questions--how to mourn a loved one, and how to find the space to mourn strangers lost to tragedy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Witness to History: \u003c\/b\u003e Bearing witness to a tumultuous decade, the collection holds a lens to events from the Syrian refugee crisis to police brutality and the pandemic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Paradox of Being Human: \u003c\/b\u003e Fierce and big-hearted poems that catalogue the struggle and astonishment of survival in a world where every breath is luck.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLINDA GREGERSON is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature and directs the Helen Zell Writers' Program. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is the author of six books of poetry and two books of criticism, and the coeditor of one collection of scholarly essays. Gregerson's poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Granta, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Paris Review, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Kenyon Review, The Best American Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other journals and anthologies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44519468597299,"sku":"9780358671053","price":69.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/2191\/6467\/files\/2V7JteVHxn9780358671053.webp?v=1783846989","url":"https:\/\/thereadinghousebookcompany.com\/products\/canopy-poems-hardcover","provider":"The Reading House Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}