{"product_id":"capable-ways-craig-challender-9781542490566","title":"Capable Ways","description":"\"The odds are long. And I \/ have permission to speak.\" In a voice as authentic as it is powerful, Challender gives us plain-spoken, heartfelt poems about family, place, love, and loss. Dipping into the well of memory, he evokes generations while recalling a life until now, his sixtieth year, when he has \"begun \/ to wear my death \/ lightly, try \/ it on for size.\" Whether recounting a dream enacting suppressed rage towards a dead brother, watching the three fates attend a son's birth, or riffing on popular culture or academia, the poems run deep with currents of empathy and human connection. They are sometimes dark, but it's a darkness that notices the beauty of \"a lake spackled with light; \/ leaf's syllable, wind-stirred\" and can admit joy, as in a beloved daughter seen as \"a gift \/ I wish I could say came from us: when \/ whoever's DNA dice rolled your way they came up elevens \/ and sevens.\" A moving and beautiful book and handy antidote to contemporary social-media-obsessed poetry. - Rebecca Foust, author of \"Paradise Drive\", winter of the Press 53 Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Craig Challender\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1542490561\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781542490566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.16d","brand":"Craig Challender","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48459448516863,"sku":"9781542490566","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c51d8dfc-5684-45f3-9e76-d90222a7bccd.jpg?v=1777409755","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/capable-ways-craig-challender-9781542490566","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}