{"product_id":"pacific-power-light-poems-9780593536490","title":"Pacific Power \u0026 Light: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning poet returns to his homeplace in the Pacific Northwest, where the neighborhood simmers with the chemical presence of human trouble and sparks of beauty coexist with danger.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis image-driven, sound-driven collection carries us to the working-class Portland neighborhood of Lents, where Dickman was raised by a single mother. Here, as a skateboarding boy practices his kickflip on the street, enlightenment simmers under the surface of both the natural world and the human constructions that threaten it. The rivers shrinking to a trickle, the unaddressed crisis of homelessness, the drug use in a local park: these run side by side with the efforts and structures of families, created mostly by working mothers, with their jumbled bottomless purses and full-time jobs; Dickman's own mother worked at the power company of the title, PP\u0026amp;L. His exquisite, ultrareal narratives take us down through these layers, illuminating the way we've treated and should treat one another, seeking integrity and understanding in the midst of a broken world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593536490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96","brand":"Michael Dickman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43448924274869,"sku":"9780593536490","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fc55e196-4da0-4d2d-a2ab-27fc2860112c.jpg?v=1704214655","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pacific-power-light-poems-9780593536490","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}