{"product_id":"down-erin-elizabeth-smith-9781622889037","title":"Down","description":"\u003cp\u003eErin Elizabeth Smith's \u003ci\u003eDown \u003c\/i\u003eis immediately a delight. Refreshing in its take on \u003ci\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland, \u003c\/i\u003ethe reader discovers here the odd world and new experience that Smith draws them \"down\" into. The fall that seems endless takes us into Tennessee, where \"petals doodle lawns \/ like the drawings of girls\" or where \"grey squirrels \/ chase themselves into their trees.\" This isn't exactly Lewis Carroll surrealism, but the narrator of these poems takes us into her incantations and dreamscapes, where suddenly she looks at her spouse lying on the sofa and sees \"a foreign \/\/ thing, a stammering king \/ made kitten in the shaking.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaking does not necessarily relieve the narrator, nor us. Rather, she writes, \"I am still falling \/ through the slippery leaves \/ every bit of anorexic ice, \/ still waking like a child roused \/ in the backseat, unsure where I am \/ in the fragile, new dark.\" And, like Alice, \u003ci\u003ecuriouser and curiouser, \u003c\/i\u003e the trip down means we may rise up, that \"it can heal us again.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin Elizabeth Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1622889037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781622889037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen F. Austin University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Erin Elizabeth Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44616759607551,"sku":"9781622889037","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f64bc477-d5c6-47bc-9d49-15ab7d60d638.jpg?v=1703022159","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/down-erin-elizabeth-smith-9781622889037","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}