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What does it mean to bring children into a world like this one? A world where grenades are “the only kind of fruit we can still name”? Where “lightning can strike over \/ and over without boredom or belief and nothing \/ is saved”? Where losses, both ecological and personal, proliferate endlessly?    Here, a parent’s joy is accompanied by the gnaw of remorse. And yet, Wahmanholm recognizes, children bind us to the world—to its missiles and marvels, to the possibility that there is indeed grace worth “suffer[ing] the empty universe for.”   If we are going to worry, let us also at least wonder. If we are going to be seized by terror, let us also be “seized by the topaz sky and the breeze through it.” A glittering, kinetic testament to vanishing—of biodiversity, of climate stability, of a sense of safety—Meltwater is both vindication and balm.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49747136250129,"sku":"NGR9781639551019","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51041698677009,"sku":"NIN9781639551019","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51695529394449,"sku":"CIN1639551018G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52435739083025,"sku":"NLS9781639551019","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53091503800593,"sku":"CIN1639551018VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1639551018.jpg?v=1750721597"},{"product_id":"wilder-book-claire-wahmanholm-9781571315069","title":"Wilder","description":"FINALIST FOR THE 2019 MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD IN POETRY  “After the explosion: the longest night.”  In Wilder—selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the 2018 Lindquist \u0026amp; Vennum Prize for Poetry—Claire Wahmanholm maps an alien but unnervingly familiar world as it accelerates into cataclysm. Here refugees listen to relaxation tapes that create an Arcadia out of tires and bleach. Here the alphabet spells out disaster and devours children. Here plate tectonics birth a misery rift, spinning loved ones away from each other across an uncaring sea. And here the cosmos—and Cosmos, as Carl Sagan’s hopeful words are fissured by erasure—yawns wide.  Wilder is grimly visceral but also darkly sly; it paints its world in shades of neon and rust, and its apocalypse in language that runs both sublime and matter-of-fact. “Some of us didn't have lungs left,” writes Wahmanholm. “So when we lay beneath the loudspeaker sky—when we were told to pay attention to our breath—we had to improvise.” The result is a debut collection that both beguiles and wounds, whose sky is “black at noon, black in the afternoon.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50064507863313,"sku":"CIN1571315063G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037238362385,"sku":"NIN9781571315069","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52820903067921,"sku":"NLS9781571315069","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1571315063.jpg?v=1750862255"},{"product_id":"redmouth-book-claire-wahmanholm-9781943981144","title":"Redmouth","description":"Poetry. Claire Wahmanholm's book REDMOUTH is grief-stricken. But how does the poet make grief so beautiful? Who knew the language of grief could be stricken itself with the language of beauty? Here the deer have disappeared but when the speaker closes her eyes, she 'can see them \/ licking the coats of their fawns, anchoring \/ their spots to their fur to their bodies to the forest floor.' There's simply no doubt that Wahmanholm is a poet because language is the center of all of her work, whether it is describing a decayed world where 'mountains have unraveled into sand' to the stripping away and lifting out of language in the equally stunning erasures sprinkled throughout this book. Yes, darkness razors across these poems, but what comes out of the experience of reading is beauty. I don't know many poets today who can write such beauty into such devastation: 'The children's hair lies dewy on the hillocks of their heads \/ until shreds like cornsilk come off in the breeze.' Gorgeously rendered, devastatingly stunning.  Victoria Chang","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50403662496017,"sku":"CIN1943981140G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1943981140.jpg?v=1751218780"},{"product_id":"night-vision-book-claire-wahmanholm-9781934832622","title":"Night Vision","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Claire Wahmanholm's \u003cem\u003eNight Vision, \u003c\/em\u003e we are made to witness narrative's inevitable unravelling. By placing hybrid prose in conversation with skillful erasures, Wahmanholm creates a subtle and striking commentary on the nature of language and story. She reminds us of the infinite ways that voice resists containment by history, convention, and our expectations as readers. In each lyric fragment, each fracturing of the source text, we are shown all that has been buried in the trappings of prose. 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