{"product_id":"the-blue-mimes-poems-9781644452790","title":"The Blue Mimes: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eSara Daniele Rivera's award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public. From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone--all while the wider-world loses its sense of connection, safety, and assurance. In those years of mourning, \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Mimes\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of grounding and heartening resolve, even and especially in the states of uncertainty that define the human condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRivera's poems travel between Albuquerque, Lima, and Havana, deserts and coastlines and cities, Spanish and English--between modes of language and culture that shape the contours of memory and expose the fault lines of the self. In those inevitable fractures, with honest, off-kilter precision, Rivera vividly renders the ways in which the bereft become approximations of themselves as a means of survival, mimicking the stilted actions of the people they once were. Where speech is not enough, this astonishing collection finds a radical practice in continued searching, endurance without promise--the rifts in communion and incomplete pictures that afford the possibility to heal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644452790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 7.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Sara Daniele Rivera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43600504586421,"sku":"9781644452790","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e88a38c1-6338-41c4-98b8-f5c43cd353c7.jpg?v=1707209576","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-blue-mimes-poems-9781644452790","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}