{"product_id":"the-milk-hours-poems-9781571315083","title":"The Milk Hours: Poems","description":"Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, \u003ci\u003eThe Milk Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.\" So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too, \u003ci\u003eThe Milk Hours\u003c\/i\u003e sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations, which never stray far from an engagement with science, geography, art, and aesthetics, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Indeed, while John James begins with the biographical--the haunting loss of a father in childhood, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood--the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning, and to whom--or what--do we turn, when such boundaries so radically collapse?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/20\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"John James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660152828060,"sku":"9781571315083","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_87b58bfa-05fb-4870-865a-5ae39fe60536.jpg?v=1603896211","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-milk-hours-poems-9781571315083","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}