{"product_id":"fieldnotes-on-ordinary-love-keith-s-wilson-9781556595615","title":"Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love","description":"\"Wilson's collection is romantic yet world-weary, bereaved yet fortified―a kindred reflection of the heart in the modern world.\" ―\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFieldnotes on Ordinary Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection whose poems approach family, politics, and romance, often through the lens of space: the vagaries of a relationship full of wonder and coldness, separation and exploration. There is the sense of the speaker as a cartographer of familiar spaces, of land he has never left or relationships that have stayed with him for years, and always with the newness of an alien or stranger. Acutely attuned to the heritage of Greco-Roman myth, Wilson writes through characters such as the Basilisk and the Minotaur, emphasizing the intense loneliness these characters experience from their uniqueness. For the racially ambiguous speaker of these poems, who is both black and not black, who has lived between the American South and the Midwest, there are no easy answers. From the fields of Kentucky to the pigeon coops of Chicago, identities and locations blur--the pastoral bleeds into the Afrofuturist, black into white and back again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith S. Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1556595611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556595615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/18\/2019","brand":"Keith S. Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045752598783,"sku":"9781556595615","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_40394c36-9224-4037-b53d-dfde46554a7c.jpg?v=1684980548","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fieldnotes-on-ordinary-love-keith-s-wilson-9781556595615","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}