{"product_id":"dont-ask-me-how-i-know-9781970256079","title":"Don't Ask Me How I Know","description":"\u003cp\u003eA heart in extremity-what hungers, urgencies, hardships drive and deliver us? These poems, like fierce midwives who insist on getting life to its necessity of oxygen, restore power to us, recreate us in the process. We feel what lifts the moment, what comforts and holds us as we lean over the abyss. Even the ability to howl our lostness in a field is a saving volition and bounty this extraordinary poet fearlessly delivers to sustain us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Tess Gallagher, author of \u003cem\u003eIs, Is Not\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDon't Ask Me How I Know\u003c\/em\u003e tenderly reveals the forces that shape human experience are more essential than having all the answers. We witness and grieve with her on tarmac and in stairwells, save old yellow sheets from the hospital shredder, reconnect over social media only to then let go. We too grow protective over the most vulnerable, the buck restfully hiding in her yard before making his escape, the beauty of one more day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Rosebud Ben-Oni, author of the Alice James Award-Winning \u003cem\u003eIf This Is the Age We End Discovery\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Moonpath Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781970256079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Michele Bombardier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472976277685,"sku":"9781970256079","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0540486b-4cd2-4674-b5cb-3e595982ccfd.jpg?v=1777444914","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dont-ask-me-how-i-know-9781970256079","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}