{"product_id":"canopy-poems-1","title":"Canopy: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from “a contemporary master”*—a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment *\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda Gregerson’s long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, “in a world where every breath I take is luck.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Syrian refugee and ecological crises, to police brutality and COVID, to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, the poems ask: How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved one, and how do we mourn strangers?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe magnificent poems in \u003ci\u003eCanopy \u003c\/i\u003ecatalogue and reckon with humanity and the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world of overlapping crises, how do we find language for what we’ve witnessed?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Natural World:\u003c\/b\u003e From the Global Seed Vault under permafrost to the radical fragility of our shared ecosystem, these poems confront the realities of our planet in crisis.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOn Grief and Mortality:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregerson asks the most difficult questions—how to mourn a loved one, and how to find the space to mourn strangers lost to tragedy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Witness to History:\u003c\/b\u003e Bearing witness to a tumultuous decade, the collection holds a lens to events from the Syrian refugee crisis to police brutality and the pandemic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Paradox of Being Human:\u003c\/b\u003e Fierce and big-hearted poems that catalogue the struggle and astonishment of survival in a world where every breath is luck.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Linda Gregerson","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":51671258136882,"sku":"9780358622253","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":52344460116274,"sku":"9780358671053","price":20.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780358622253.jpg?v=1787960384","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/canopy-poems-1","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}