{"product_id":"animal-purpose-michelle-y-burke-9780821421987","title":"Animal Purpose: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAnimal Purpose, \u003c\/i\u003e Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper way to slaughter a truckload of chickens. In another, a couple confronts the recent loss of a loved one when a stranger makes an unexpected confession in a crowded restaurant. Set in both rural and urban spaces, these poems challenge received ideas about work, gender, and place. Danger blurs into beauty and back again. Burke scours the hard edges of the world to find \"fleeting softness,\" which she wishes \"into the world like pollen that covers everything.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Y. Burke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821421980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821421987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.20d","brand":"Michelle Y. Burke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980620595455,"sku":"9780821421987","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f671c5be-383c-4249-b728-7065509b313f.jpg?v=1683250953","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/animal-purpose-michelle-y-burke-9780821421987","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}