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Who taught us that we weren't supposed to enjoy poetry? Wright's poems un-teach dullness, crackle in the mouth like pop rocks. We readers experience the guilty pleasure of watching Wright's neighbors be themselves in all their particularity and odd, naked glory. Leda Burk, for example, saves pajamas for hospital stays. And nature is welcome, too, to play in this verbal backwoods fest, the book offering a long love \/ doing with the sea what sex does, \/ antennae diddling the floor. We shouldn't be watching, but of course, like Amy Wright, we're living this, too, through expertly crafted language. We become trespassers at the windows of the double-wide, but soon we forget ourselves and frolic in verbal play. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Marilyn Kallet, author of 17 books, including The Love That Moves Me\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50375878508817,"sku":"CIN0989872483VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0989872483.jpg?v=1751013620"},{"product_id":"everything-in-the-universe-book-amy-wright-9781604542370","title":"Everything in the Universe","description":"Auto mechanics and millipedes, auctioneers and citrus longhorn beetles, shimmer into focus the gossamer web that connects Everything in the Universe. Amy Wright's second poetry collection calls attention to treehoppers, buck moths, deer ticks, and other invertebrate survivalists who sound across lawns and canopies, whose startling biodiversity is, as E.O. Wilson says, all we have. As nations gather to discuss brown-clouded horizons, Wright offers alternatives to covering eyes and ears against eminent realities. When we open the windows, linger over a young mantis climbing toward the door knob, sit still long enough for a hawk moth to light near us, we sense the scope of this time and place we inhabit. Astounded by wonder, we act differently. We make discoveries we never could have imagined-zebra crickets, cobra lilies, love for our in-laws. We might even find it in our hearts to forgive our megalomaniac family, as seen by elders who saw us move into the neighborhood. 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Some of them are famous, some will be, some should be—but all of them refract the light of the unknowable mystery of the self.”    Folding together conversations from a vast web of thinkers like Dorothy Allison, Rae Armantrout, Gerald Stern, Lia Purpura, Raven Jackson, Wendy Walters, Kimiko Hahn, Philanese Slaughter, and many, many more, Paper Concert depicts every individual as a collective in dire need of preservation. If this book is a paper concert, it is a symphony. 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