{"product_id":"cauldron-of-hisses-penelope-moffet-9798432171351","title":"Cauldron of Hisses","description":"This fascinating interlinked collage of poems paints vignettes of the world's big cats-leopards, caracals, cheetahs-against a ghostly backdrop of human family, relationships, and survival alone and together. Interconnectedness runs all through \u003ci\u003eCauldron of Hisses\u003c\/i\u003e: parent to child, poem to poem, hunter to sustenance, a world in which, through these ever-turning flashcards of poems, \"each builds a structure, \/finds society.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Amy Miller, author of \u003ci\u003eAstronauts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Trouble with New England Girls\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCauldron of Hisses\u003c\/i\u003e, Penelope Moffet shows how to trust where the muse will take you, delivering a fine book of feline poetics just in time for the Year of the Tiger. When she writes, \"Now she looks\/and listens on her own, \/sniffing the warm breeze\/for hints that what she needs\/breathes the same air she does,\" she could be describing her own tracking via these linked poems of the origins of her personal mythology. \u003ci\u003eCauldron of Hisses\u003c\/i\u003e is medicine for us.\u003cbr\u003e-Paul E Nelson, Author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Time Before Slaughter: Featuring Pig War \u0026amp; Other Songs of Cascadia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"So much depends on posturing\/in cats and humans.\" In this series of linked poems Penelope Moffet, her domestic cats and their counterparts in the wild shape-shift back and forth-all of them \"alone unless tamed and almost\/never tamed.\" \u003ci\u003eCauldron of Hisses\u003c\/i\u003e is full of surprises and delight.\u003cbr\u003e-Cynthia Anderson, author of \u003ci\u003eFull Circle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Peace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Penelope Moffet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798432171351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d","brand":"Penelope Moffet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48851511312639,"sku":"9798432171351","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cauldron-of-hisses-penelope-moffet-9798432171351","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}