{"product_id":"the-next-sky-9781556597336","title":"The Next Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Next Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, history haunts and poems grapple with nostalgia and pain, the ancient and contemporary, to make sense of the places they intersect.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePulsing with evocative voice and imagery, Sherwin Bitsui's \u003cem\u003eThe Next Sky \u003c\/em\u003eruminates on the past, present, and future, questioning where living things fit into the puzzle of the natural world. Here, blackbirds sigh obsidian and the \"land whispers its name.\" The air is woven by laughter and breath becomes \"a knot of lung steam\" hidden behind a rib cage. From fragmented and surreal, to haunted and intimate, the poems in this book-length sequence ebb and flow, washing over readers like a wall of rain--fleeting and resonant. As the ancient collides with the modern and temporal, \u003cem\u003eThe Next Sky\u003c\/em\u003e navigates ideas of culture and identity through explorations of land, place, and nature. \"Insisting: Dusk is just skin worn on faces,\" Bitsui blurs the line between humans and nature, collapsing what we know of language and time.\u003c\/p\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 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556597336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88","brand":"Sherwin Bitsui","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774270075061,"sku":"9781556597336","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-next-sky-9781556597336","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}