{"product_id":"a-year-other-poems-9781639550227","title":"A Year \u0026 Other Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003efeeld\u003c\/i\u003e comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jos Charles's poems communicate with one another as neurons do: sharp, charged, in language that predates language. \"A scandal \/ three cartons red \/ in a hedge \/ in \/ each the thousand eye research of flies.\" With acute lyricism, she documents how a person endures seemingly relentless devastation--California wildfires, despotic legislation, housing insecurity--amid illusions of safety. \"I wanted to believe,\" Charles declares, \"a corner a print leaned to \/ a corner can save \/ a people.\" Still the house falls apart. Death visits and lingers. Belief proves, again and again, that belief alone is not enough. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yet miraculously, one might still manage to seek--propelled by love, or hope, or sometimes only momentum--something better. There is a place where there are no futile longings, no persistent institutional threats to one's life. Poems might take us there; tenderness, too, as long as we can manage to keep moving. \"A current \/ gives as much as it has,\" writes Charles--despite fire, despite loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Harrowing and gorgeous, \u003ci\u003ea Year \u0026amp; other poems\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing new collection from a poet of \"unusual beauty and lyricism\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639550227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96","brand":"Jos Charles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43733015625909,"sku":"9781639550227","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2fb00524-9dae-4afd-80f9-0c7ab784f470.jpg?v=1710257072","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-year-other-poems-9781639550227","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}