{"product_id":"the-squannacook-at-dawn-paperback","title":"The Squannacook at Dawn - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eThe Squannacook at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e range from formal verse to free verse to prose poetry and are linked by the speaker's experiences with water. While many of the poems revolve around fishing, they also explore the speaker's relationship with the loss of his father, the peace of the natural world, aging, environmental change, and spirituality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComments from Contest Judge, Andrea Hollander: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the twenty poems that comprise \u003cem\u003eThe Squannacook at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e is so well crafted that the art is all readers experience, the craft a scaffolding that has been removed. Each poem begins with a sense of welcome and closes unpredictably, yet inevitably (i.e., no better ending seems possible). This is high praise, but it's not my only reason for selecting this manuscript as winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023. Read together and in the order they appear in the collection, these twenty poems create what feels like a twenty-first poem: the chapbook itself. The poet has not only written twenty fine poems-none an imitation of another in content or form-but when read straight through, the poems provide readers with a tightly woven and beautiful verbal tapestry, each poem contributing indelibly to the chapbook's larger context or story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 36\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776339345696,"sku":"9781956285499","price":16.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3b9917d08160722b0ed1403c662c8cda.webp?v=1780477510","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-squannacook-at-dawn-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}