{"product_id":"searching-for-home-hardcover","title":"Searching for Home - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Pack\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSearching for Home, \u003c\/em\u003ePack's splendid twenty-second collection of poems, written largely during his last year of life, centers on the search for meaning. At its heart are sequences of poems about three figures, each a seeker after some physical or conceptual home where uncertainties are overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Charles Darwin circumnavigates the world and gleans the evidence for his theory of evolution but seems to sanction a godless world of randomness and struggle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Escaping Nazis, Albert Einstein immigrates to America, where he fights for peace while unsuccessfully trying to prove his unified field theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Pogroms force the poet's scholarly Uncle Phil from Russia to America, where he lives in reduced circumstances and longs to relocate to Israel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearching for meaning informs other deeply felt poems, likewise rendered in supple metrical language, as do themes of empathy, peace, humor, and the beauty of nature-pushbacks against disappointment, mortality, and the human propensity for cruelty and violence. It is a landscape dotted with remembered moments of joy and wonder: otters slide down a muddy slope, kids put on a hilarious version of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, a dog teases a little boy. . . . \u003cem\u003eSearching for Home\u003c\/em\u003e is both a vision of Pack's own odyssey and his final testament to what matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777658683680,"sku":"9781639821488","price":34.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f26e1b2112aa4836953cacd846a13028.webp?v=1780500585","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/searching-for-home-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}