{"title":"Series: American Poets Continuum","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eAmerican Poets Continuum\u003c\/strong\u003e series invites readers to explore a diverse landscape of contemporary poetry that intersects with themes as varied as philosophy, psychology, and history. Each collection offers a unique voice that challenges and enriches, reflecting the depth and complexity of modern American experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond poetry, the series touches upon broader cultural and intellectual territories, often weaving in influences from business, investment, and travel. Whether you seek contemplative verse or narrative innovation, these works provide a distinctive journey through language and thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sky-country-by-christine-kitano-9781942683438","title":"Sky Country","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristine Kitano's second poetry collection elicits a sense of hunger — an intense longing for home and an ache for human connection. Channeling both real and imagined immigration experiences of her own family — her grandmothers, who fled Korea and Japan; and her father, a Japanese American who was incarcerated during WWII — Kitano's ambitious poetry speaks for those who have been historically silenced and displaced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristine Kitano\u003c\/b\u003e's first collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eBirds of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Lynx House Press. 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They arrive, finally, in a place of beauty, mystery, grief, and joy. Poems from this collection were selected by Marie Howe as winner of the 2006 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCecilia Woloch was named 2004 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry for her last collection, \u003cem\u003eLate\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2003). She is founding director of the Summer Poetry Workshop in Idyllwild, California. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Los Angeles, California, and travels extensively in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eDevils Lake Journal\u003c\/em\u003e: “Cecilia Woloch's collection \u003cem\u003eCarpathia\u003c\/em\u003e is about distance, both physical and emotional. Her poems occupy a lush landscape where the natural world succumbs to loss, where ‘fat bees [fall] into the wine’ and the ghost swans have ‘wings of death.’ The highlights of this collection are her numerous postcard poems which feel balanced in their attempts to be both strange and authentic without becoming burdened with ironic oddity that I've seen so much in recent poetry. Her postcards move, making leaps with each new sentence, and their prose-poem form opens these poems up to be more peculiar in a way that's altogether successful.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Cosmopolitan Review\u003c\/em\u003e: “One of the joys of Cecilia Woloch's poetry is that it so beautifully and skilfully intermingles humour with emotional intensity, sensuality, and existential profoundness... Underneath it all, there lies a clear conviction that each of us could have been somebody else, could have been born and lived somewhere else, and yet ‘We all dwell in one country, O stranger, the world.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470236008684,"sku":"9781934414262","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781934414262-carpathia.jpg?v=1775214363"},{"product_id":"rancho-notorious-by-richard-garcia-9781929918010","title":"Rancho Notorious","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the movie of the same name, the poems in \u003ci\u003eRancho Notorious\u003c\/i\u003e are peopled with a colourful cast of characters, all born of the fertile imagination of Richard Garcia. Through narratives, lyric poems and dramatic monologues, Garcia's characters demonstrate that the idea of self is fluid, one identity easily swapped for another. These are poems with heart, poems that believe that the construction of memory, however fragmentary and inconclusive, is also an act of redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Garcia\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in San Francisco in 1941, the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Mexican mother, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flying Garcias\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of poetry, and \u003ci\u003eMy Aunt Otila's Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e, a bilingual children's book. 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He also brings pop humour in such poems as \"The Guitars,\" which uses the word \"guitar\" in almost every sentence to talk about the true (and not so true) lives of rock stars. David Lazar notes, \"Ray Gonzalez may be our most essential prose poet.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRay Gonzalez's accolades include the 2003 Minnesota Literary Award for Poetry and the PEN Oakland\/Josephine Miles Book Award. He has published nine poetry collections and edited twelve anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eNo Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596052218092,"sku":"9781934414293","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d692693b8e9043b366ffdf7b793b77f5.jpg?v=1777931705"},{"product_id":"you-and-yours-by-naomi-shihab-nye-9781929918690","title":"You and Yours","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eYou and Yours\u003c\/em\u003e, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighbourhood, about rural schools and urban communities she's visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Day\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI missed the day\u003cbr\u003e on which it was said\u003cbr\u003e others should not have\u003cbr\u003e certain weapons, but we could.\u003cbr\u003e Not only could, but should,\u003cbr\u003e and do.\u003cbr\u003e I missed that day.\u003cbr\u003e Was I sleeping?\u003cbr\u003e I might have been digging\u003cbr\u003e in the yard,\u003cbr\u003e doing something small and slow\u003cbr\u003e as usual.\u003cbr\u003e Or maybe I wasn't born yet.\u003cbr\u003e What about all the other people\u003cbr\u003e who aren't born?\u003cbr\u003e Who will tell them?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBalancing direct language with a suggestive \"aslantness,\" Nye probes the fragile connection between language and meaning. She never shies from the challenge of trying to name the mysterious logic of childhood or speak truth to power in the face of the horrors of war. She understands our lives are marked by tragedy, inequity, and misunderstanding, and that our best chance of surviving our losses and shortcomings is to maintain a heightened awareness of the sacred in all things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/strong\u003e, poet, editor, anthologist, is a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations. Nye's work has been featured on PBS poetry specials including \u003cem\u003eNOW with Bill Moyers\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Language of Life with Bill Moyers\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe United States of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. She has travelled abroad as a visiting writer on three Arts America tours sponsored by the United States Information Agency. 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