{"product_id":"9781555974039","title":"On the Ground : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eOn the Ground\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Fanny Howe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spiritually resonant and politically urgent new collection by the winner of the Lenore Marshall poetry prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy father was a soldier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewho was smaller than my son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhen he returned as a ghost.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI begged him to stay with us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebut he said: \"Not until you come to life.\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e-from \"[Untitled]\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFanny Howe's bold new collection responds to the contrast between American imperialist goals and the realities of life lived \"on the ground.\" While our minds are preoccupied with the war games on television, we go on living among our ordinary joys and appetites. How can we live under these dissonant conditions and reconcile our existence with our longings?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Fanny Howe employs a sometimes fierce, always passionate, spareness in her lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit. Her work displays as well a political urgency, that is to say, a profound concern for social justice and for the soundness and fate of the polis, the 'city on a hill.' Writes Emerson, 'The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.' Here's the luminous and incontrovertible proof.” —\u003ci\u003eMichael Palmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781555974039\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40594035671246,"sku":"9781555974039","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_e7164be7-870f-468c-85d7-2313393364a0.jpg?v=1637799648","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781555974039","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}