{"product_id":"meltwater-poems-paperback","title":"Meltwater: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaire Wahmanholm\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the governing body, \"the organ and the tissue \/ and the cell, the membrane and the organelle.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Once there were oarfish, opaleyes, olive flounders. Once the oxbows were not overrun with nitrogen.\" Part requiem, part bedtime story, \u003ci\u003eMeltwater\u003c\/i\u003e narrates the awful possibility of doom as well as the grim temptation to numb ourselves to it. Prose poems melt into erasures, erasures swell into lush catalogs. Within this formal ebb and flow, Claire Wahmanholm explores both abundance and annihilation, giving shape and music to our shared human anxieties. What does it mean to bring children into a world like this one? A world where grenades are \"the only kind of fruit we can still name\"? Where \"lightning can strike over \/ and over without boredom or belief and nothing \/ is saved\"? Where losses, both ecological and personal, proliferate endlessly? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, a parent's joy is accompanied by the gnaw of remorse. And yet, Wahmanholm recognizes, children bind us to the world-to its missiles and marvels, to the possibility that there is indeed grace worth \"suffer[ing] the empty universe for.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf we are going to worry, let us also at least wonder. If we are going to be seized by terror, let us also be \"seized by the topaz sky and the breeze through it.\" A glittering, kinetic testament to vanishing--of biodiversity, of climate stability, of a sense of safety--\u003ci\u003eMeltwater\u003c\/i\u003e is both vindication and balm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Wahmanholm \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eMeltwater\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRedmouth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWilder\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the Lindquist \u0026amp; Vennum Prize for Poetry and the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2019 Minnesota Book Award. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlackbird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Square Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGrist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRHINO\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFairy Tale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBennington Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDIAGRAM\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review Online\u003c\/i\u003e, and have been featured by the Academy of American Poets. She lives in the Twin Cities.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\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 8.4 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760888611104,"sku":"9781639551019","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/845064b4109445303204d57880befaf5.webp?v=1780193225","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/meltwater-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}