{"product_id":"patient-zero-book-tomas-q-morin-9781556594939","title":"Patient Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I will call the voice of this poet a 'common' voice... a voice a poet could take into an entire lifetime of memorable writing.\" --Philip Levine, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis second collection from APR-Honickman winner Tomás Q. Morín explores love gone sideways in the lives of lovers, parents and children, humans and the divine. \u003ci\u003ePatient Zero\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with voices--of all the people, places, and things that surround a life sick with heartbreak. Doors are the wooden tongues of a house, grocery-store cashiers are gatekeepers to the infinite, and food is the all-powerful life force behind every living thing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Patient Zero\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove is a worried, old heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003edisease\u003c\/i\u003e, as Son House once put it, the very stuff\u003cbr\u003e blues are made of, real blues\u003cbr\u003e that consist of a male and female, not monkey junk\u003cbr\u003e like the \"Okra blues\" or \"Pay Day blues,\"\u003cbr\u003e though I think House would agree\u003cbr\u003e two hearts of any persuasion are enough for a real blues,\u003cbr\u003e if one of them is sick, that sickly green of a frog\u003cbr\u003e bitten in two by the neighbor's dog, all of which\u003cbr\u003e makes me wonder about the source of our disease\u003cbr\u003e and whose teeth first tore the heart after Adam\u003cbr\u003e and Eve left the garden?...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTomás Q. Morín's debut poetry collection \u003ci\u003eA Larger Country\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the APR\/Honickman Prize. He is co-editor with Mari L'Esperance of the anthology \u003ci\u003eComing Close,\u003c\/i\u003e and translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Heights of Macchu Picchu\u003c\/i\u003e by Pablo Neruda. He teaches at Texas State University and in the low residency MFA program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50380846334225,"sku":"CIN1556594933VG","price":6.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037340336401,"sku":"NIN9781556594939","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556594933.jpg?v=1751341667","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/patient-zero-book-tomas-q-morin-9781556594939","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}