{"product_id":"how-to-love-the-empty-air-paperback","title":"How to Love the Empty Air - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCristin O'Keefe Aptowicz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling nonfiction writer and poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's \u003ci\u003eHow to Love the Empty Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e reaches new heights in her revelatory seventh collection of poetry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Grief is one of the most impossible things to put words to. In How to Love the Empty Air Christin O'Keefe Aptowicz does the impossible. With humor and honesty, she offers comfort and even the possibility of healing...--\u003cb\u003eSarah Kay, \u003ci\u003eauthor of No Matter the Wreckage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContinuing in her tradition of engaging autobiographical work, \u003ci\u003eHow to Love the Empty Air\u003c\/i\u003e explores what happens when the impossible becomes real―for better and for worse. Aptowicz's journey to find happiness and home in her ever-shifting world sees her struggling in cities throughout America. When her luck changes―in love and in life―she can't help but \"tell the sun \/ tell the fields \/ tell the huge Texas sky.... \/ tell myself again and again until I believe it.\" However, the upward trajectory of this new life is rocked by the sudden death of the poet's mother. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the year that follows, Aptowicz battles the silencing power of grief with intimate poems burnished by loss and a hard-won humor, capturing the dance that all newly grieving must do between everyday living and the desire \"to elope with this grief, \/ who is not your enemy, \/ this grief who maybe now is your best friend. \/ This grief, who is your husband, \/ the thing you curl into every night, \/ falling asleep in its arms...\" As in her award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Year of No Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e, Aptowicz counts her losses and her blessings, knowing how despite it all, life \"ripples boundless, like electricity, like joy \/ like... laughter, irresistible and bright, \/ an impossible thing to contain.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 20, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760116367648,"sku":"9781938912801","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e7132f05027cbe65f7df06c6fce0fcd7.webp?v=1780172027","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-to-love-the-empty-air-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}