{"product_id":"dissolve-9781556595455","title":"Dissolve","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bitsui's poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry.\" --\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon Navajo history and enduring tradition, Sherwin Bitsui leads us on a treacherous, otherworldly passage through the American Southwest. Fluidly shape-shifting and captured by language that functions like a moving camera, \u003cem\u003eDissolve\u003c\/em\u003e is urban and rural, past and present in the haze of the reservation. Bitsui proves himself to be one of this century's most haunting, raw, and uncompromising voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"(Untitled)\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e. . . Jeweled with houseflies, \u003cbr\u003eleather rattles, foil-wrapped, \u003cbr\u003eferment in beaked masks \u003cbr\u003eon the shores of evaporating lakes.\u003cbr\u003eThis plot, now a hotel garden, \u003cbr\u003eits fountain gushing forth--\u003cbr\u003ethe slashed wrists of the Colorado River.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSherwin Bitsui \u003c\/strong\u003ewas raised in White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the author of two other books of poetry, among them \u003cem\u003eFlood Song\u003c\/em\u003e, which won an American Book Award. He currently lives in Arizona where he has serves on the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556595455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2018 pg. 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/17\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2018 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sherwin Bitsui","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659693191324,"sku":"9781556595455","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_72369084-2edc-4009-a3e2-8b82668d8f30.jpg?v=1603895286","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dissolve-9781556595455","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}