{"product_id":"the-stranger-i-become-on-walking-looking-and-writing-paperback","title":"The Stranger I Become: On Walking, Looking, and Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatharine Coles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColes is a true original. ―Tom Sleigh\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stranger I Become\u003c\/em\u003e probes the permeable boundary between inner life and outer, thought and action, science and experience. Poet Katharine Coles begins her lyric essays with a meditation on \"the urge to move beyond, to understand myself as a stranger, \u003cem\u003eestranged\u003c\/em\u003e.\" The essays travel, always on foot, from Coles's home with its kept and wild birds, into the canyon her home overlooks, itself populated with creatures ranging from voles to owls, moose, bobcats, and coyotes. From there, always looking, always walking, in the company of the words that move her, they traverse her neighborhood and distant places in this country and the world. All along, they consider the poetry that inhabits her: the winged creatures of Dickinson, Ashbery's \"reflections,\" Keats's \"irritable reaching,\" Anne Carson's ever-unreachable apples, and more. Taken together, they make up what Lance Olsen calls \"a poetics of the vivid.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatharine Coles\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two novels, seven collections of poems, and the memoir \u003cem\u003eLook Both Ways\u003c\/em\u003e. The recipient of grants from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation, she has served as Poet Laureate of Utah and was inaugural director of the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.9 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 08, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759965798688,"sku":"9781885983862","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3402a6a20e4b98b05cbb8d85a34d7a6e.webp?v=1780167487","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-stranger-i-become-on-walking-looking-and-writing-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}