{"product_id":"field-guide-for-accidents-albert-abonado-9780807020517","title":"Field Guide for Accidents: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eSELECTED BY MAHOGANY L. BROWNE FOR THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"you showed him your teeth, you dared him to look into your mouth to see the metal bands straightening your jaw into an American smile.\"--from \u003c\/i\u003eField Guide for Accidents \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn excerpt from Mahogany L. Browne's statement announcing the 2024 National Poetry Series winner: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eField Guide for Accidents\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a prayer and carries us through nature among the wings of birdsong and a mother's healing psalms. Each poem betwixt breath and faith. Faith in God and faith in the loss of one's identity. The line breaks and the lemons illuminated. The insistence of a family silence and the temptation to follow the sound of one's internal weeping, all a joyous unearthing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe text, both scientific in fact and devout in humanity, wields the power to expose the flesh of how death, god, and blueberries all have a song of their own. The author writes with a deft hand towards the knowing and the inarticulation of feeling; the practice of balance and bodies off-axis; oscillating between memory and rememory. This collection is a declaration. Small wolves, horses, trees, honeybees, rice, blessings, and ground beef. The specificity of living coaxes its audience through each section as dutifully as a theater's usher. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe delicate handiwork of archiving a family's history without fear of dishonoring a bloodline. Each poem is a piece in the puzzle in the act of metamorphization or the humble art of praise or the study of ecopoetics or the undoing of our greatest worries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this collection couplets turn into family photo albums and odes reverberate like fine-tuned pianos. The author is playing us a song, one that anyone can sing along to if there is a pulse beneath your skin. The author explores the restrictive nature of respectability while writing about intimacy and rediscovers racism in the fraught hands of friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere isn't one way into this collection without exposing your own wounds. So lean in, reader. Loosen the neck tie from your imagination's curve and watch Abonado sculpt human from stone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Albert Abonado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807020516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807020517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Albert Abonado","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45331982876927,"sku":"9780807020517","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e66609cb-920d-422b-b081-be7e0f377e89.jpg?v=1713971419","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/field-guide-for-accidents-albert-abonado-9780807020517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}