{"product_id":"bestiary-elise-paschen-9781597091312","title":"Bestiary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in Elise Paschen's \u003ci\u003eBestiary\u003c\/i\u003e explore domestic preoccupations set against the backdrop of the wild-heartedness, real and imagined, of the animal world,\" praises the poet Jason Shinder. In this modern-day \u003ci\u003eBestiary\u003c\/i\u003e, or \"Book of Beasts,\" the line between animal and human is thinly-drawn - the daughter of a Celtic king, through love, is transformed from beast to human; lovers take flight as moon and owl; manatees transform, before the explorers' eyes, into mermaids. This dynamic runs throughout the collection: taking flight, hovering between air and earth, plunging, and then resurfacing from water. The poems create a constant engagement between what tethers us to our daily lives - marriage, motherhood, raising a family, the loss of parents in old age - and the desire for other worlds. Exploring notions of transformation, these poems cross thresholds between animal and human, between death and life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAward-winning poet, Elise Paschen, creates in her third and most complex poetry collection, work which is elegant and passionate, preternaturally still and reckless all at once. Paschen displays a variety of form and nuance - from ghazals to long-lined free verse poems. Writing out of a distinct Western literary tradition, but tapping into her Native American (Osage) roots, Paschen celebrates the mythic, the unusual, the magical glimpsed in the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elise Paschen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1597091316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781597091312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Red Hen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/22\/2008 pg. 33","brand":"Elise Paschen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989353496831,"sku":"9781597091312","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca0e024c-388d-48eb-b2ba-a101e3dc4b85.jpg?v=1683299019","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bestiary-elise-paschen-9781597091312","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}