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Through her usual nimble style, Silano deftly weaves the humanistic and the cosmic, delivering a series of up-close and personal examinations of phenomena as far flung as copepods, nebula, trilobites, preening cormorants, or Reaching out to soothe you, \/the twisted arms of the last of three species of endemic \/sea stars ripping themselves apart, arms crawling away in opposite directions, insides spilling out.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50056640790801,"sku":"CIN1947817000G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53338628620561,"sku":"GOR014858894","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1947817000.jpg?v=1751188374"},{"product_id":"reckless-lovely-book-martha-silano-9780989979719","title":"Reckless Lovely","description":"Martha Silano's new collection begins with The Big Bang and ends with the unleashing of twelve million bees from a jack-knifed semi. 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Take a big bite, this is a strong first serving. -Robert Hershon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartha Silano writes with wit and intelligence, and she is equally at home naming the birds on a beach and the arcana of the yellow pages. It is her love of language that distinguishes these poems and makes them so full of startling awareness, and this not only at the level of the word, but also in the syntax, which reveals the mind's continual approach and avoidance of its emotional home. -Alison Hawthorne Deming \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe truth tastes like these succulent poems. Their refrains will form on your lips and ring in your heart. 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When I learn I probably have a couple years,  maybe (catastrophically) less, crossword puzzles  begin to feel meaningless, though not the pair  of mergansers, not the red cardinal of my heart.  The sky does all sorts of marvelously uncatastrophic  things that winter I shimmy between science  \u0026amp; song, between widgeons \u0026amp; windows, weather  \u0026amp; its invitation to walk. 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