{"product_id":"barer-sky-book-serena-solin-9781959708209","title":"A Barer Sky","description":"Drawing on sources from Dostoyevsky to Boyz n the Hood, Emerson to Olson, the Puritans to Honda Civics, the poems and essays of Serena Solin's first book ask what it means to write in a world of lush and violent textuality. Elision, evasion, and allusion resolve in form and familiarity, then come undone. Always on the wrong side of the tracks, Solin moves through perspectives beyond the human, from the inanimate to the entomological, the etymological to the world-historical.  \\\\  Serena Solin's first book is a stellar accomplishment, a luminous elegy on loss that unfolds in inventive forms: There's poetry of course, but also plays, essays, and anagrams. In conversation with poets and thinkers from Transcendentalism to the Language school, Solin reminds us of our collective grief as well as our collective strength. A BARER SKY proves that the complexity and heat of the tender heart pressed up against the cold cannot be extinguished. --BRENDA COULTAS  \\\\  Apocalyptic, lychnoscopic, ecologic, and literally electric, Solin speaks what is impossible to say, in a poetry full of new locutions. --S. YARBERRY  \\\\  A BARER SKY offers an astonishingly coherent analysis of the cracks and fissures threatening to splinter the individual and collective soul in a time of concussive losses. --KENDRA SULLIVAN  \\\\  Solin's ardent writing in these poems unfolds by a system of navigation where \"all maps are partial\" and all the destinations eventually leave or are left by \"the realm of human contact.\" Erasure and absence, the \"lonely ¿ impress upon the universal velvet,\" lead the way to assured presence: \"Tell me an angel \/ a trick of the eye.\" These poems are clear and open-eyed. They approach a radical rupture in the order of daily life to introduce a rip in the fabric of being: look through it, there, to see what's beyond. --SARA ANN GILMORE   \\\\  Contemporary US Poetry. Postmodern Poetry. Elegy. Ecopoetics. Erasure Poetry. Hybrid Text. Essay. Infant Loss. Jewish Authors. Black Authors. Women Authors.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53176656167185,"sku":"NGR9781959708209","price":26.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781959708209.jpg?v=1772175114","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/barer-sky-book-serena-solin-9781959708209","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}