{"product_id":"dissonance-9780226840314","title":"Dissonance","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of poems and photographs that take the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains as a microcosm for considering climate change, borders, and community life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eDissonance\u003c\/i\u003e, translator Kristin Dykstra's first book of original poetry, the author leads us to inner worlds shaped partly by the New England countryside, tracking shifts in the region's nature, infrastructure, and people, while sharing observations on borders and climate catastrophe that reverberate globally. Dykstra condenses signs of urban expansion, economic division, and battles over democracy into an innovative meditation. With a dynamic approach to form, musicality, and scope, \u003ci\u003eDissonance\u003c\/i\u003e explores ways of experiencing regional landscapes and imagined communities in the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through her extended sequence of prose poems, photographs, and lyric fragments, Dykstra merges clips from documents and dialogues with observations drawn from two local libraries and her daily walks down a dirt road through Vermont's foothills. As she moves down this public road, which lies within the nation's federally designated hundred-mile border zone, she finds a daily convergence of tensions. \u003ci\u003eDissonance\u003c\/i\u003e asks how poetry can unsettle impressions of a place, and how that process, in turn, disturbs impressions of self, of others, and of time itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDissonance \u003c\/i\u003eis the recipient of the third annual Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226840314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Kristin Dykstra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45038239449269,"sku":"9780226840314","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3fc9882f-2ff0-4579-9242-475ce680612f.jpg?v=1737475228","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dissonance-9780226840314","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}