{"product_id":"when-the-horses-9781949944716","title":"When the Horses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her award-winning debut, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen the Horses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, Mary Helen Callier explores the rich inner terrain of an imaginative childhood through deep and curious poems set against the uncanny beauty of the American South.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Walter Benjamin wrote: \"Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater,\" and it is in this bedraggled theater of memory that Callier stages her poems. A careful, curtained-off darkness lurks at their edges, actors appearing more in silhouette, evoking, often, the shape of a thing, the sound it makes, instead of the thing itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all memories, these moments are fleeting. To read \u003cem\u003eWhen the Horses\u003c\/em\u003e is to see something nearly vanished, like trying to remember a dream hours after waking--a dream that haunts a wounded part of you, though you can't remember which. These are poems of encounter--with place, self, other--and the uncanny beauty that remains after loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949944716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100","brand":"Mary Helen Callier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45111916331189,"sku":"9781949944716","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_cb9d65dd-6263-40ab-983a-906e4a7af55a.jpg?v=1739887566","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/when-the-horses-9781949944716","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}