{"product_id":"atlas-poems-paperback","title":"Atlas: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatrina Vandenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A first book of remarkable talent and depth.\" --PATTIANN ROGERS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Atlas holding up the world, this collection elevates human history--acknowledging and transforming patterns of all kinds through careful attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAtlas\u003c\/em\u003e, Katrina Vandenberg captures the way events reverberate and repeat across time and place. In the seventeenth century in the Netherlands, as one poem notes, a virus fueled through the tulip trade, making the flowers' veined petals so beautiful the price of bulbs soared; in the twentieth century in the United States, blood tainted with the AIDS virus was inadvertently transfused into the veins of hemophiliacs, eclipsing \"the purpose that briefly lit their brilliant veins.\" In another poem, Vandenberg links an image of her sister, pausing in her work as housekeeper, with the contours of a maid in a Vermeer painting and a woman just \"made over\" on that day's episode of \u003cem\u003eOprah\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike any good atlas, this collection plots intersections: of love, death, history, art, and desire. Carrying lines and themes from one poem to the next, drawing on family artifacts, memory, and imagination, these are poems that build a conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9.02 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Minnesota Book Award (2005)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760510730528,"sku":"9781571314192","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/24928b8dbe8317cb5b650f4dddd15dd7.webp?v=1780181958","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/atlas-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}