{"product_id":"paper-crown-9780819501691","title":"Paper Crown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst poetry collection in a decade from acclaimed author of The Crying Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince Heather Christle published her last poetry collection a decade ago, her nonfiction works \u003ci\u003eThe Crying Book\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn the Rhododendrons\u003c\/i\u003e have found her readers around the world. \u003ci\u003ePaper Crown\u003c\/i\u003e marks Christle's exuberant return to her home genre, in which she combines the imagination of her earliest poetry with the personal elements of her more recent prose. These poems conjure moments when the world's events (a child's words, early twentieth-century predictions of drone warfare, dinner with friends) align themselves with the odd logic of dreams and serendipity. With tenderness and verve, honesty and curiosity, Paper Crown invites readers to look up from its pages and recognize that the day going on around them could very well be its own poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[sample poem]\u003cbr\u003eMistake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years I have seen\u003cbr\u003edead animals on the highway\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eand grieved for them\u003cbr\u003eonly to realize they are\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003enot dead animals\u003cbr\u003ethey are t shirts\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eor bits of blown tire\u003cbr\u003eand I have found\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003emyself with this\u003cbr\u003eexcess of grief\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI have made with\u003cbr\u003eno object to let\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eit spill over and\u003cbr\u003eI have not known\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ewhere to put it or\u003cbr\u003ekeep it and then today\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI thought \u003ci\u003eI know\u003cbr\u003eI can give it to you\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\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 08\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819501691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80","brand":"Heather Christle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45484006670517,"sku":"9780819501691","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4d9e011a-34bf-4ba2-b23c-6e1e9915884d.jpg?v=1749566128","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/paper-crown-9780819501691","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}