{"product_id":"arbor-vitae-maureen-alsop-9781962890038","title":"Arbor Vitae","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLove is the elixir which heals. Love offers dignity and connection and allows room for the most potent and challenging of reparations: forgiveness. Like a double-exposed photograph, the language in \u003cem\u003eArbor Vitae\u003c\/em\u003e, \"the tree of life,\" offers a delicate ribboning of shifting perspectives. The narration is activated as a witness, as consciousness is observed, and trespasses a \"bare view\" of a multilayered landscape. Here, a pensive topography of solitude and loss unfolds. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book-length pastoral poem seeks accountability and compassion for institutional and political trauma.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Recent and historic human rights abuses merge to encompass a devastation that imprints the collective psyche. As Whitman writes, the scenery is the source: \"the smallest sprout... goes onward and outward, nothing collapses.\" \u003cem\u003eArbor Vita\u003c\/em\u003ee, in a dream state, from the shores of Guantanamo to the unfiltered \"sun-burnished pines\" of the multi-continental holocaust, seeks hope, seeks language as a root or a sapling that might break through the asphalt. Over amends for the disgrace of human rights abuses -voices merge in a textural elegiac for what might lift upward-unfurling leaves, harnessed, toward that one push into a great light.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maureen Alsop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1962890031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781962890038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nauset Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.17d","brand":"Maureen Alsop","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48587954946303,"sku":"9781962890038","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/arbor-vitae-maureen-alsop-9781962890038","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}