{"product_id":"wild-gardens-paperback","title":"Wild Gardens - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara Letourneau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you were to cross the poetry of Ursula K. Le Guin and that of Mary Oliver, you might very well get Sara Letourneau's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e. These poems possess the type of exquisite experience of nature that Oliver offers, laced through and through with a bravery that marks Le Guin's verse at its best. Letourneau not only walks through the world; she strides across it with an insistence that beauty is strength and strength (especially hers) is beautiful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWayne-Daniel Berard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt of Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Air Is\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is populated by intimate poems of address-to readers, yes, but also to the \"wolf's cry\" of metal music, to a great egret in Central Park, to Icelandic tap water, to a Tibetan singing bowl. And sometimes they inhabit, speaking as North Atlantic right whale or frankincense oil. These are poems of learning to love one's self amidst the \"violent vigilance\" of anxiety, pandemic, environmental concern, and loss. Despite diminishing glaciers and Earth swallowing its own rivers, \"somehow grief fails to blind me,\" Sara Letourneau writes, reintroducing us to a world that remains \"too candescent \/ to know how to sleep.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Hart Olander\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eUncertain Acrobats\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSara Letourneau's poems express a sensibility driven by widening rings of empathy. Metalhead in a sundress, she reveals her identification with Others, ranging from Cape Cod as a conscious entity, to a predatory osprey, a dying glacier, and much more. Darkness, \"the toxins and dead cells of self,\" grief, a personal implosion in the night-all these are present as well. But in a world \"bursting with contradiction,\" compassion appears in the most unexpected places, like an anonymous love note found at a gas pump. Sympathetic vibrations greet us everywhere: wander into these \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e yourself!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid P. Miller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBend in the Stair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSprawled Asleep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45859540959429,"sku":"9781639805525","price":39.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/OgbRlmbGmK9781639805525.webp?v=1771527392","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/wild-gardens-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}