{"product_id":"false-horizons-laura-urban-perry-9781970256192","title":"False Horizons","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis little book holds a mother's unbounded grief in poems graceful and adamant, truthful and amazed. There is never closure after a child's death, Laura Urban Perry teaches us, but street lights and galaxies still shine, sometimes in waters stirred by a kayak paddle. Here is her beautifully rendered transition from one world to another-not beyond great pain but in concert with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Kathleen Flenniken, author of \u003cem\u003ePlume\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePost Romantic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFalse Horizons\u003c\/em\u003e, Laura Urban Perry uses language as a telescope and a microscope to explain her journey that \"Even God dares not try\"-through grief after her son dies. She juxtaposes words such as asymmetry, hypothesis, and machinery with stray, cradle, and \"music and wrapping paper.\" This is a hauntingly beautiful telling from \"yesterday's sweet ordinary\" to the \"kintsugi repair of \/ gold in the fracture.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Susan Landgraf, author of \u003cem\u003eOut of a Land of Alkali \u0026amp; Chromate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Urban Perry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1970256192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781970256192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Moonpath Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2026\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 0.12d","brand":"Laura Urban Perry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874779640063,"sku":"9781970256192","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/false-horizons-laura-urban-perry-9781970256192","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}