{"product_id":"a-holy-dread-r-a-villanueva-9781949944860","title":"A Holy Dread","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2024 Alice James Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...the holy dread with which we face that which we love most, or that which loves us the most...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Mary Ruefle, \u003cem\u003eOn Fear \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired by the poet's experiences as an educator, a son, and a Filipino American simultaneously reflecting on personal history and looking ahead to fatherhood, the poems of \u003cem\u003eA Holy Dread\u003c\/em\u003e emerge from the poet's questions, hopes, and unshakeable fears about the world we've created and have yet to create; the world our children will inherit.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom within the glow of the everyday, the poems of \u003cem\u003eA Holy Dread\u003c\/em\u003e approach topics such as mortality, grief, death, generation, and Anthropocene with formal balance and restraint. Villanueva's intense, tight lyrics mirror the speaker's reality: flooded with equal wonderment and worry, tenderness and calamity, beauty and grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnrelenting, the poems consistently simmer with a musicality that often evokes a feeling of prayer or pleading. Our speaker traverses the complex emotional states of peril, fear, wonder, and faith with unflinching precision and all the grace and bravery of a new father intimately aware of all that is at stake. Through a spectrum of forms and reckonings, the poems in this collection search for joy and hold it dear, even as things fall apart all around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. A. Villanueva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949944867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949944860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"R. A. Villanueva","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46881155219711,"sku":"9781949944860","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_69806897-5cb8-4653-8828-ee7087b7620d.jpg?v=1747970842","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-holy-dread-r-a-villanueva-9781949944860","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}