{"product_id":"bicycle-lotus-sara-backer-9780692583715","title":"Bicycle Lotus","description":"\"Backer is within and without tradition, conversing with William Carlos Williams, Coyote, and prison inmates, and saying nothing that all of them can't understand.\" -Eric Paul Shaffer, author of \u003ci\u003eLahaina Noon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are no observers in the food chain. Like it or not, we're in nature and nature is in us. So, what do we do about that? In this hybrid collection of poetry and short essays presented as a chronological narrative, Sara Backer explores the choices we make to embrace and reject the wild world. Backer shows us this is not easy, and when insight arrives, awareness becomes a demanding and never-ending job. If you pay close attention, though, the rewards are spectacular.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis chapbook won the 2015 Turtle Island Poetry Award. According to Turtle Island editor Jared Smith, \"This is what a chapbook should be all about-a precise and mind expanding voyage into a state of mind that could not be entered into through a longer work-and yet contains more than any work of similar size possibly could.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Backer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692583718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692583715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Left Fork\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/09\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.08d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sara Backer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441262670079,"sku":"9780692583715","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e17c410f-ecd3-42d6-b645-bb605062f5af.jpg?v=1777189764","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bicycle-lotus-sara-backer-9780692583715","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}