{"product_id":"patient-zero-9781556594939","title":"Patient Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I will call the voice of this poet a 'common' voice... a voice a poet could take into an entire lifetime of memorable writing.\" --Philip Levine, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis second collection from APR-Honickman winner Tom s Q. Mor n explores love gone sideways in the lives of lovers, parents and children, humans and the divine. \u003ci\u003ePatient Zero\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with voices--of all the people, places, and things that surround a life sick with heartbreak. Doors are the wooden tongues of a house, grocery-store cashiers are gatekeepers to the infinite, and food is the all-powerful life force behind every living thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Patient Zero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove is a worried, old heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003edisease\u003c\/i\u003e, as Son House once put it, the very stuff\u003cbr\u003eblues are made of, real blues\u003cbr\u003e that consist of a male and female, not monkey junk\u003cbr\u003elike the \"Okra blues\" or \"Pay Day blues,\"\u003cbr\u003ethough I think House would agree\u003cbr\u003etwo hearts of any persuasion are enough for a real blues, \u003cbr\u003eif one of them is sick, that sickly green of a frog\u003cbr\u003ebitten in two by the neighbor's dog, all of which\u003cbr\u003emakes me wonder about the source of our disease\u003cbr\u003eand whose teeth first tore the heart after Adam\u003cbr\u003eand Eve left the garden?...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom s Q. Mor n's debut poetry collection \u003ci\u003eA Larger Country\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the APR\/Honickman Prize. He is co-editor with Mari L'Esperance of the anthology \u003ci\u003eComing Close, \u003c\/i\u003e and translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Heights of Macchu Picchu\u003c\/i\u003e by Pablo Neruda. He teaches at Texas State University and in the low residency MFA program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\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 04\/04\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556594939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/08\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tomas Q. Morin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659690832028,"sku":"9781556594939","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_31f509da-60ec-49a1-8d93-21fb8f8653fc.jpg?v=1603895283","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/patient-zero-9781556594939","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}