{"product_id":"in-the-current-where-drowning-is-beautiful-9780819500137","title":"In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poetic re-visioning of narratives of violence against women and nature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on water, land, women, and violent environmental changes as they affect both the natural world and human migration. The poet reckons with the unsettling realities that women experience, questioning the cause and effect of events and asking why stories of oppression are so often simply accepted as the only stories. Alutiiq language is used throughout these poems that are in conversation with history, ancestors, and an uncertain future, in imagery that moves in waves, returning again and again to the ocean, and a deep visioning of the current.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from IN THE FIELD\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThey asked me if I was a citizen.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThey wanted to know what I had seen\/\u003cbr\u003eI had heard\/\u003cbr\u003ethis was only a test: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLook at the mark and tell them what you see.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[...]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819500137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104","brand":"Abigail Chabitnoy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42362414825653,"sku":"9780819500137","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b2e7c2ff-56cb-4240-b2a8-864e232e74cc.jpg?v=1662435133","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/in-the-current-where-drowning-is-beautiful-9780819500137","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}