{"product_id":"grief-flowers-megan-merchant-9781941783528","title":"Grief Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Megan Merchant's \u003cem\u003eGrief Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e exposes with unsettling accuracy what loss would look like if we could subject it to an x-ray or place it under a microscope; its irregular divisions, its unforeseen growth, its pain emanating from ever-shifting and unpredictable locations. These poems are most alive and present in their absence, in the spaces Merchant skillfully creates between what we are grateful for, what we will never have, and what we have lost. Through language delicious and disruptive, the body and its many failings are compared to the natural world--how it protects and betrays us, nurtures us with hope and herniates our hearts at the turn of seasons, kills its leaves and splits its trees: '... the botanist said the seeds will sprout, but might \/ never bloom', the author discloses when trying for another child, before the title poem grieves another baby's loss while still inside its mother: \"I know already, if it does not pass-- \/ slip into the toilet to be flushed, \/ they will lace my veins with a syringe \/of dreams and clean house.\" What we know of the unspeakable nature of grief is made manifest in this collection, and laces our veins with visions of what we cannot conjure in our own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Amy Strauss Friedman, \u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eGathered Bones are Known to Wander\u003c\/em\u003e and the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eThe Eggshell Skull Rule\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan Merchant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 194178352X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781941783528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Glass Lyre Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d","brand":"Megan Merchant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44540621947135,"sku":"9781941783528","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_114fa818-d3d7-48a0-8b45-91cec753217e.jpg?v=1700588936","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grief-flowers-megan-merchant-9781941783528","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}