{"product_id":"storage-unit-for-the-spirit-house-paperback","title":"Storage Unit for the Spirit House - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaw Shein Win\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win's second book, \u003ci\u003eStorage Unit for the Spirit House\u003c\/i\u003e, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the immaterial. Vinyl records, felt wolverines, a belt used to punish children, pain pills, and \"show dogs with bejeweled collars\" crowd into Win's real and imagined storage units. \u003ci\u003eNats\u003c\/i\u003e, Buddhist animist deities from her family's homeland of Burma, haunt the book's six sections. The \u003ci\u003enats\u003c\/i\u003e, spirits believed to have the power to influence everyday lives, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father's cigarette smoke. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Assemblages of both earthly and noncorporeal possessions throughout the collection become resonant and alive, and Win must summon \"a circle of drums and copper bells\" to appease the \u003ci\u003enats \u003c\/i\u003ewho have moved into a long-ago family house. This careful curation of unlikely objects and images becomes an act of ritual collection that uses language to interrogate how pain in life can transform someone into a \u003ci\u003enat \u003c\/i\u003eor a siren that lives on. Restrained lines request our imagination as we move with the poet through haunted spaces and the objects that inhabit them.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaw Shein Win\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eInvisible Gifts: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and her chapbooks include \u003ci\u003eRuins of a glittering palace\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScore and Bone\u003c\/i\u003e. Maw is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016-18). She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 0.4 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768940396832,"sku":"9781632430861","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6c17179bbf133653d52af650c46e7cd4.webp?v=1780340278","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/storage-unit-for-the-spirit-house-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}