{"product_id":"a-year-other-poems-paperback","title":"A Year \u0026 Other Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJos Charles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003efeeld\u003c\/i\u003e comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jos Charles's poems communicate with one another as neurons do: sharp, charged, in language that predates language. \"A scandal \/ three cartons red \/ in a hedge \/ in \/ each the thousand eye research of flies.\" With acute lyricism, she documents how a person endures seemingly relentless devastation--California wildfires, despotic legislation, housing insecurity--amid illusions of safety. \"I wanted to believe,\" Charles declares, \"a corner a print leaned to \/ a corner can save \/ a people.\" Still the house falls apart. Death visits and lingers. Belief proves, again and again, that belief alone is not enough. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yet miraculously, one might still manage to seek--propelled by love, or hope, or sometimes only momentum--something better. There is a place where there are no futile longings, no persistent institutional threats to one's life. Poems might take us there; tenderness, too, as long as we can manage to keep moving. \"A current \/ gives as much as it has,\" writes Charles--despite fire, despite loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Harrowing and gorgeous, \u003ci\u003ea Year \u0026amp; other poems\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing new collection from a poet of \"unusual beauty and lyricism\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJos Charles\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003ea Year \u0026amp; other poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003efeeld\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eSafe Space\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. In 2016, she received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship through the Poetry Foundation. Jos Charles received an MFA from the University of Arizona. She currently resides in Long Beach, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.43 x 5.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776235700512,"sku":"9781639550227","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5055cc80ba31904b10293fe97b043d02.webp?v=1780475093","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-year-other-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}