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She must learn to live alone in a landscape where poachers trespass, coyotes roam, bears menace livestock, and winter starves the wild animals--while debilitating illness and long-buried secrets threaten to upturn her life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHERA HAMONS\u003c\/b\u003e holds an MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, and serves as writer-in-residence at West Texas A\u0026amp;M University. The author of four books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eMaps of Injury\u003c\/i\u003e and the 2017 Southwest Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eThe Traveler's Guide to Bomb City\u003c\/i\u003e, she lives near Amarillo, Texas, with her husband, three cats, a dog, a rabbit, a donkey, and five horses.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50333631643921,"sku":"CIN1948814218G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51693773848849,"sku":"CIN1948814218VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1948814218.jpg?v=1751381741"},{"product_id":"traveler-s-guide-to-bomb-city-book-chera-hammons-9780944048719","title":"The Traveler's Guide to Bomb City","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmarillo, Texas, to many of those who pass through on their way to the postcard mountain scenery of northern New Mexico and Colorado, is the flattest and ugliest place they have ever seen. If, however, they were blessed with the eyes and heightened sensibilities of Chera Hammons, they would be awakened to a world of endless beauty and mystery, a world which captivated literally for over a year and spiritually for a lifetime none other than the major American artist, Georgia O'Keeffe. Hammons's meticulously crafted poems peel away the layers of the ostensible otherness of the natural world, revealing its kernels of mystical profundity to the wide-eyed astonishment of the reader. From grackles to abandoned puppies, tornadoes to tumbleweeds, raptors to horses, bomb manufacturing to sparrows, and human epiphanies to heartbreak, Hammons demonstrates time and time again, with consummate poetic skill, that she learned how to wring beauty \/ from anything she could. -Larry D. 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Her poems remind us that, despite the times we live in, we seek to be blessed, even if the angel we wrestle turns out to be only a reflection of ourselves.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740929454353,"sku":"NIN9780990945246","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780990945246.jpg?v=1763485508"},{"product_id":"salvage-list-book-chera-hammons-9781960215406","title":"Salvage List","description":"\u003ci\u003eSalvage List\u003c\/i\u003e considers the gravity of inheritance in its most visceral and primal forms. In equal turns quietly meditative and vividly present to the natural world, these poems enchant as they seek to navigate the difficulties of inhabiting our failing bodies in a failing world. Whether tending to animals in the Texas Panhandle or recalling the weight of long-held grief, Chera Hammons remains a powerful voice in this new collection.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52757332328721,"sku":"NIN9781960215406","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53250636972305,"sku":"NLS9781960215406","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781960215406.jpg?v=1763578546"},{"product_id":"birds-of-america-book-chera-hammons-9780593980033","title":"Birds of America","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn evocative, uplifting, and thoughtfully illustrated collection of poems steeped in the natural world, examining life and healing in the aftermath of trauma\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An achievement . . . This book reminds us what poetry is capable of.\"--José Olivarez, author of \u003ci\u003ePromises of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSee how the eagles lift now, bound by surviving together.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWe only get one shot at this. Save\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ewhat you can. Love even what you can't save.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What does it mean to love someone, and to love the world, when what we love is vanishing? In \u003ci\u003eBirds of America\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning poet Chera Hammons reckons with the intersection of personal violence and the violence humans have wrought upon our planet and explores the beauty that remains among the ruins. 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