{"product_id":"hawk-parable-poems-9781629221052","title":"Hawk Parable: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"...Mills proves that Faulkner underestimated a poet's ability to manage enormous shifts of scale...Haunted by the unverified possibility of her fighter-pilot grandfather's 'involvement in the Nagasaki mission, ' Mills scans skies for contrails, scrutinizes negatives, reads survivors' accounts, and sifts through white sands...Mills has written a book for the long nuclear century.\" - \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/em\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHawk Parable\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a family mystery and engages with the limits of historical knowledge--particularly of the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped at the end of the Second World War and the repercussions of atomic tests the U.S. conducted throughout the 20th century. These poems explore a space between environmental crisis and a crisis of conscience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a lyric collection, \u003cem\u003eHawk Parable\u003c\/em\u003e begins as a meditation on the author's grandfather's possible involvement in the Nagasaki mission and moves through poems that engage with the legacy of nuclear testing on our global environment. At times, \u003cem\u003eHawk Parable\u003c\/em\u003e borrows language from declassified nuclear test films, survivor accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, scientific studies of bird migrations through the Nevada Test Site, and the author's grandfather's letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book enacts what it means to encounter fragments--of historical records, family stories, and survivor accounts--through exploring a variety of forms. \u003cem\u003eHawk Parable\u003c\/em\u003e seeks what it means to be human in the spaces between tragedy and beauty, loss and life, in the relationships between the lyric speaker, history, and personal memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Akron Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781629221052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/18\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tyler Mills","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43112108982453,"sku":"9781629221052","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_90b232dc-c1f5-45e0-bcb5-9cbf92e20c71.jpg?v=1693928883","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hawk-parable-poems-9781629221052","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}