{"product_id":"conversation-among-stones-paperback","title":"Conversation Among Stones - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWillie Lin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAwakening to histories personal and social, \u003ci\u003eConversation Among Stones\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on memory and identity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough fields of wild grass, restless seascapes, and cities tinged with sand, Willie Lin's debut collection of poetry questions what can remain and what must be pared away in our search for truth. \u003ci\u003eConversation Among Stones\u003c\/i\u003e speaks both to the inanimate--misremembered histories, photographs, the dead--and to the voices in our daily lives that reverberate with disagreement and confusion. Punctuated by doubt and resistant to easy transformations, these poems listen and revise. With striking restraint and simultaneous abundance, these poems attempt to reconcile the desire for answers with the necessity of not knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurn by turn, this collection catalogs moments of approach, fervor, and strife and carries us into a profound quest for understanding: \"And that was one conviction: \/ that we must be to one another \/ what the world is not \/ to us.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWillie Lin was born in Beijing, China and lives and works in Chicago, IL. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBennington Review, Prairie Schooner, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among other journals. She's the author of the chapbooks Lesser Bird of Paradise (MIEL) and\u003ci\u003e Instructions for Folding\u003c\/i\u003e (Northwestern University Press), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, and has received fellowship and scholarship support from Kundiman and the Summer Workshop Program at the Fine Arts Work Center.\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 0.3 x 8.9 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764875657504,"sku":"9781960145048","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/071dc38c5a40824f8e8d750b916afd13.webp?v=1780257093","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/conversation-among-stones-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}