{"product_id":"a-year-other-poems-9781571315472","title":"a Year \u0026 other poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003efeeld\u003c\/i\u003e comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\n\nJos Charles’s poems communicate with one another as neurons do: sharp, charged, in language that predates language. “A scandal \/ three cartons red \/ in a hedge \/ in \/ each the thousand eye research of flies.” With acute lyricism, she documents how a person endures seemingly relentless devastation—California wildfires, despotic legislation, housing insecurity—amid illusions of safety. “I wanted to believe,” Charles declares, “a corner a print leaned to \/ a corner can save \/ a people.” Still the house falls apart. Death visits and lingers. Belief proves, again and again, that belief alone is not enough.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\n\nYet miraculously, one might still manage to seek—propelled by love, or hope, or sometimes only momentum—something better. There is a place where there are no futile longings, no persistent institutional threats to one’s life. Poems might take us there; tenderness, too, as long as we can manage to keep moving. “A current \/ gives as much as it has,” writes Charles—despite fire, despite loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\n\nHarrowing and gorgeous, \u003ci\u003ea Year \u0026amp; other poems\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing new collection from a poet of “unusual beauty and lyricism” (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Jos Charles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959836577910,"sku":"9781571315472","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_35510ada-bebd-4a63-8b09-62ba01a5af9c.jpg?v=1767775140","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/a-year-other-poems-9781571315472","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}