{"product_id":"geometry-of-the-restless-herd-9781556596926","title":"Geometry of the Restless Herd","description":"\u003cb\u003eInverting the pastoral, Sophie Cabot Black uses the keeping of animals and tending of land to interrogate the self and in turn reveal new truths about the social, economic, and political realities of contemporary America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGeometry of the Restless Herd\u003c\/i\u003e, Sophie Cabot Black stages a powerful allegory for the social and political realities of our human world. Through hauntingly metaphysical poems set within a sheepherder's domain, Black conjures fields of harvest and resurrection, of wagers and outcomes--animals to keep, and those destined for slaughter. Here, both singular voices and polyvocal choruses argue through discourse, asking who has the real power, and how are we to survive the violence we do to each other?\u003cp\u003eBlack's scenes are at once oneiric and raw: a squeaking gate wails against neglect; a field receives a runt body; a raccoon flees with egg dripping from its mouth--all while lush rains and long winters quiet the dead. Navigating both confining pens and wide-open spaces, these poems ask startlingly immediate questions about captivity and freedom, protection and exploitation, confronting the predicaments of late capitalism: industries of infinite regress, technologies that exceed us, and a soul stranded somewhere between expectation and redemption. Ultimately, these stark pastorals paint a moving portrait of life: as utterly inseparable from the world it inhabits.\u003cbr\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 Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556596926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72","brand":"Sophie Cabot Black","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43733009334453,"sku":"9781556596926","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_55556e76-6a21-41ab-baba-537dab6caf3a.jpg?v=1710256961","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/geometry-of-the-restless-herd-9781556596926","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}