{"product_id":"insomniac-sentinel-paperback","title":"Insomniac Sentinel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAbraham Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new poetry collection from one of America's most lyric and sonically interesting poets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbraham Smith's \u003ci\u003eInsomniac Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e is a concatenation of sandhill cranes and their haunting deep time dinosaur barking. It is the croon of safety from the heart of Wisconsin. It is an aegis from the violence perpetuated on the young; that the young perpetuate; lurching and launching from tercets, those familiar island letting go sideways, the poems themselves as steady and desultory as sand and people and the places they abide. \u003ci\u003eInsomniac Sentinel \u003c\/i\u003eis a collision of meter, speed, and experience into auditory sensations that range from the elegiac to the ecstatic to the venomous in Smith's nuanced considerations of blue-collar America. Mirroring the attentions of Midwest arrhythmia in the music of the sandhill cranes, \u003ci\u003eInsomniac Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e resonates on temporal frequencies, waves ancient and contemporary, rolling from the throats of giants.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbraham Smith's\u003c\/b\u003e recent publications include\u003ci\u003e Insomniac Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e (Baobab Press, 2023), \u003ci\u003eDear Weirdo\u003c\/i\u003e (Propeller Books, 2022), and \u003ci\u003eBear Lite Inn\u003c\/i\u003e (New Michigan Press,2020). Away from his desk, he improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns; their records \u003ci\u003eIt Never Ends \u003c\/i\u003e(2023) and \u003ci\u003eBreak Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) were released on Mississippi's Dial Back Sound. He lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State.\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 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765766947104,"sku":"9781936097449","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1ea50dd3bbd10f72030dcecc1f1d6394.webp?v=1780279196","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/insomniac-sentinel-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}