{"product_id":"prayers-prairie-9781950744237","title":"Prayer's Prairie","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrayer's Prairie digs into a terrain and its people, past and present, to upturn and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epreserve artifacts of the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtfully composed and immersive, set among the fires and grasses from the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat Lakes to the Northern Plains, these poems revere the prairie-scape and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrayer's complexities of lives and deaths on its soils. Its people show a compassion \"that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estill salves, still stings.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rough loveliness of the habitat emerges from the soil-the \"wild onion, clover, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estinging nettles, husks and rasps\" are \"entitled to be prairie.\" And its inhabitants are\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecalled to higher standards. A speaker calls out destruction in the name of progress, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eposing questions such as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If the \/ machine is dominant, what and who \/ are submissive, and why?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, much remains. The poems are a recognition of the beautiful permanence of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis land and the generations who lived there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michigan Writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950744237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10d","brand":"Jan Wiezorek","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51258252263605,"sku":"9781950744237","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_80434845-4945-4b57-920f-a5865137c4c0.jpg?v=1750814568","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/prayers-prairie-9781950744237","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}