{"product_id":"calf-canyon-poems-paperback","title":"Calf Canyon: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah McCartt-Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKiki Petrosino\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI am trying to tell my unborn daughter a story. It is an old story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethat hangs on the spinneret tip of a spider's abdomen, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe spider's heart a bruise, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eeach chamber a stitch that nicks the copper blood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eas it rushes through, each valve sighing out\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003elike the hush that hung\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003elodged in everyone's lungs, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ea silence stacked between plates on the drying rack, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ea thrum that vibrated the blades of his kitchen knives.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith long-limbed free verse and highly textured prose, \u003cem\u003eCalf Canyon\u003c\/em\u003e builds an origin myth with uncertain consequences and bald violence. McCartt-Jackson imagines a landscape where memories are permeable, physical places: the watersides of rural Kentucky and the Ozarks give way to the dry gulches and deep ravines of California as the speaker attains adulthood and her relationships become more fraught with danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo, this: \/ you didn't mean to \/ tear out the part of you you didn't like \/ by tearing out a part of me \/ for the sixth, seventh, eighth, twelfth time you decided: \/ love was my heart, \/ the size of your fist.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDomestic meditations vine with the thorns of the natural world in a collection that is bare-handed, wind-polished, and visceral, and McCartt-Jackson's command of imagery leaves the reader with sculptural playback of brutal love and resonant feelings. This is a collection to read beginning to end, and from the end to the first poem, interleaving the pages with marginalia, tears, and the reader's own memories. Rarely does a poet bend such gifted, formal craft to the requirements of fierce feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 54\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.15 x 6.5 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 20, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777039696160,"sku":"9781948559218","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1b0cc228cb2eb44918e91057ad6283a4.webp?v=1780490911","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/calf-canyon-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}