{"product_id":"garden-on-an-alien-star-system-paperback","title":"Garden on an Alien Star System - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudith Cody\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gimlet-eyed catalogue of the natural world, and, contained within it, the world within ourselves. Irresistible language makes it a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Sean Greer\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of the novel \u003cem\u003eLESS\u003c\/em\u003e, the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prose poem, \"Hose. Ants. Plants. Expressway.\" alone makes this delightful chapbook worthy of our close consideration-and is emblematic, too, of this glorious, serious, humorous, loving paean to the natural world and us in it, in this, to quote another poem, \"personal myth of the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eClaire Ortalda\u003c\/strong\u003e, Georgia State University Fiction Prize Winner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Judith Cody's gorgeous collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eGarden on an Alien Star\u003c\/em\u003e, a fistful of soil is a place of endless wonder, where the poet sings praises to decay, and a window box is a magical crossroads where the human and natural worlds interact. The gardener's many relationships with her flowers and weeds are full of metaphors for personal and spiritual relationships. Everyday experiences take on mythical stature, in one poem it's a line of ants along a garden hose, in another poem it's \"a descending cascade of petals\" distracting a brown towhee from an earwig. The poems in this collection offer the poet's vision of a backyard Eden where today's creation legends continue to be forever born and reborn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Curl\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of novels, \u003cem\u003eThe Outlaws of Maroon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Co-op Conspiracy\u003c\/em\u003e and the history, \u003cem\u003eIndigenous Peoples Day\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 40\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51787081023776,"sku":"9781646623433","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c331d62a3283770a541d3c0c48211112.webp?v=1780644323","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/garden-on-an-alien-star-system-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}