{"product_id":"searching-for-home-9781639821488","title":"Searching for Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSearching for Home, \u003c\/em\u003ePack's splendid twenty-second collection of poems, written largely during his last year of life, centers on the search for meaning. At its heart are sequences of poems about three figures, each a seeker after some physical or conceptual home where uncertainties are overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Charles Darwin circumnavigates the world and gleans the evidence for his theory of evolution but seems to sanction a godless world of randomness and struggle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Escaping Nazis, Albert Einstein immigrates to America, where he fights for peace while unsuccessfully trying to prove his unified field theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Pogroms force the poet's scholarly Uncle Phil from Russia to America, where he lives in reduced circumstances and longs to relocate to Israel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearching for meaning informs other deeply felt poems, likewise rendered in supple metrical language, as do themes of empathy, peace, humor, and the beauty of nature-pushbacks against disappointment, mortality, and the human propensity for cruelty and violence. It is a landscape dotted with remembered moments of joy and wonder: otters slide down a muddy slope, kids put on a hilarious version of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, a dog teases a little boy. . . . \u003cem\u003eSearching for Home\u003c\/em\u003e is both a vision of Pack's own odyssey and his final testament to what matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Slant Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639821488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Robert Pack","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43132947464373,"sku":"9781639821488","price":27.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ab5b6f69-9088-44a1-a956-1a1c34652c76.jpg?v=1695136270","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/searching-for-home-9781639821488","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}